Minikube nginx ingress local setup

Minikube nginx ingress on local mac

I was using minikube on mac trying to local test.
I faced problem accessing local ingress after I set up. My configuration of local ingress was like below

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: app-ingress
spec:
  rules:
    - http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: app-service
                port:
                  number: 8080

I kept trying to access through minikube ip, which was 192.168.49.2 in my case, but couldn’t get any response.
The solution for me was open up a new terminal and run minikube tunnel command.
After I ran the command, I was able to get response from localhost on the browser.

What the command does is that it makes network connection between localhost and minikube. It is just like the service object needs port forwarding to access due to local environment.

If you want to set up domain names in your ingress configuration for test, descriptions are below

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: app-ingress
spec:
  rules:
    - host: local.minikube.com
      http:
        paths:
          - path: /
            pathType: Prefix
            backend:
              service:
                name: app-service
                port:
                  number: 8080

After using configuration like above, the domain should be added to the host file.
In my case, the host file was located at /private/etc/hosts.
Insert a new row of 127.0.0.1 local.minikube.com and save it.

• References
  • Stackoverflow
  • Minikube Doc