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Kubernetes v4.9.1 published on Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024 by Pulumi

Exposing a Deployment with a Public IP Address

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Kubernetes v4.9.1 published on Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024 by Pulumi

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    Deploys nginx to a Kubernetes cluster, and publicly exposes it to the Internet with an IP address, using a Kubernetes Service.

    In the gif below we see the experience of deploying this example with pulumi up. Notice that Pulumi has an inherent notion of “done-ness” – Pulumi waits for the IP address to be allocated to the Service. Because this example uses the Pulumi concept of stack exports to report this IP address, in this example we are also able to use curl to reach the nginx server.

    Allocating a public IP to a Deployment

    Running the App

    If you haven’t already, follow the steps in Pulumi Installation and Setup and Configuring Pulumi Kubernetes to get setup with Pulumi and Kubernetes.

    Now, install dependencies:

    go mod download
    

    Create a new stack:

    $ pulumi stack init
    Enter a stack name: exposed-deployment-dev
    

    This example will attempt to expose the nginx deployment Internet with a Service of type LoadBalancer. Since minikube does not support LoadBalancer, the application already knows to use type ClusterIP instead; all you need to do is to tell it whether you’re deploying to minikube:

    pulumi config set kubernetes-go-exposed-deployment:isMinikube <value>
    

    Perform the deployment:

    $ pulumi up
    Updating stack 'exposed-deployment-dev'
    Performing changes:
    
         Type                           Name                                       Status      Info
     +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack            exposed-deployment-exposed-deployment-dev  created     1 warning
     +   ├─ kubernetes:apps:Deployment  nginx                                      created
     +   └─ kubernetes:core:Service     nginx                                      created     2 info messages
    
    Diagnostics:
      kubernetes:core:Service: nginx
        info: ✅ Service 'nginx-rn6uipeg' successfully created endpoint objects
    
        info: ✅ Service has been allocated an IP
    
    ---outputs:---
    frontendIp: "35.226.79.225"
    
    info: 3 changes performed:
        + 3 resources created
    Update duration: 46.555593397s
    
    Permalink: https://app.pulumi.com/hausdorff/exposed-deployment-dev/updates/1
    

    We can see here in the ---outputs:--- section that Wordpress was allocated a public IP, in this case 35.226.79.225. It is exported with a stack output variable, frontendIp. We can use curl and grep to retrieve the <title> of the site the proxy points at.

    Note: minikube does not support type LoadBalancer; if you are deploying to minikube, make sure to run kubectl port-forward svc/frontend 8080:80 to forward the cluster port to the local machine and access the service via localhost:8080.

    $ curl -sL $(pulumi stack output frontendIp) | grep "<title>"
    <title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
    

    Next steps

    Now that nginx is deployed and exposed to the internet with an IP, try playing around with the example!

    If we change the nginx image to nginx:1.16-alpine, we can run pulumi preview --diff and see this change reported to us:

    Diff

    Notice also that if you provide an image that does not exist, Pulumi will report errors as it sees them. You should see something similar in principle to this:

    Diff

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    Kubernetes v4.9.1 published on Wednesday, Mar 13, 2024 by Pulumi