Kubernetes beginner - cannot load the exposed service in browser

Question

I am learning kubernetes and minikube, and I am following this tutorial:

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/accessing/

But I am running into a problem, I am not able to load the exposed service. Here are the steps I make:

minikube start

The cluster info returns

Kubernetes control plane is running at https://127.0.0.1:50121
CoreDNS is running at https://127.0.0.1:50121/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy

Then I am creating a deployment

kubectl create deployment hello-minikube1 --image=k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.4

and exposing it as a service

kubectl expose deployment hello-minikube1 --type=NodePort --port=8080

When I list the services, I dont have a url:

minikube service list

NAMESPACE	NAME	TARGET PORT	URL
default	hello-minikube1	8080

and when I try to get the url, I am not getting it, seems to be empty

minikube service hello-minikube1 --url

This is the response (first line is empty):

🏃  Starting tunnel for service hello-minikube2.
❗  Because you are using a Docker driver on darwin, the terminal needs to be open to run it.

Why I am not getting the url and cannot connect to it? What did I miss?

Thanks!

Answer 1

As per this issue,the docker driver, which needs an active terminal session. Who are using macOS to use docker driver by default a few releases ago, if no local configuration is found. I believe you can get your original behavior by using the hyperkit driver on macOS:

minikube start --driver=hyperkit

You can also set it to the default using: minikube config set driver hyperkit

This will help you to solve your issue.

Answer 2

Please use minikube ip command to get the IP of minikube and then use port number with it.

Also, refer below link:

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/accessing/#:~:text=minikube%20tunnel%20runs%20as%20a,on%20the%20host%20operating%20system.