Minikube expose MySQL running on localhost as service

Question

I have minikube version v0.17.1 running on my machine. I want to simulate the environment I will have in AWS, where my MySQL instance will be outside of my Kubernetes cluste

Answer 1

Option 1 - use a headless service without selectors

Because this service has no selector, the corresponding Endpoints object will not be created. You can manually map the service to your own specific endpoints (See doc).

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: my-service
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    targetPort: 8080
---
kind: Endpoints
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: my-service
subsets:
- addresses:
  - ip: 10.0.2.2
  ports:
  - port: 8080

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Option 2 - use ExternalName service

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: my-service
spec:
  type: ExternalName
  externalName: minikube.host

The only caveat is that it needs to be able to resolve minikube.host. Simply add this line to the etc/hosts file should do it.

10.0.2.2        minikube.host

ExternalName doesn't support port mapping at the moment.

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Another note: The IP 10.0.2.2 is known to work with Virtual Box only (see SO). For xhyve, try replacing that with 192.168.99.1 (see GitHub issue and issue). A demo GitHub.