Calling an external service from within Minikube

Question

I have a service (/deployment/pod) running in my Minikube (installed on my Mac) that needs to call an external http service that runs directly on my Mac (i.e. outside Miniku

Answer 1

Because your minikube is running on a virtual machine on your laptop , you just need minikube ssh into that machine and enter the address of your external service into the /etc/hosts file of that virtual machine.