Can't access an application deployed on AKS - azure

Question

I'm trying to access a simple Asp.net core application deployed on Azure AKS but I'm doing something wrong.
This is the deployment .yml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: aspnetapp
spec:
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: aspnet
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: aspnet
spec:
containers:
- name: aspnetapp
image: <my_image>
resources:
limits:
cpu: "0.5"
memory: 64Mi
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
and this is the service .yml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: aspnet-loadbalancer
spec:
type: LoadBalancer
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 80
targetPort: 8080
selector:
name: aspnetapp
Everything seems deployed correctly
Another check I did was to enter the pod and run
curl http://localhost:80,
and the application is running correctly, but if I try to access the application from the browser using http://20.103.147.69 a timeout is returned.
What else could be wrong?

Answer 1

Seems that you do not have an Ingress Controller deployed on your AKS as you have your application exposed directly. You will need that in order to get ingress to work.
To verify if your application is working your can use port-forward and then access http://localhost:8080 :
kubectl port-forward aspnetapp 8080:8080
But you should def. install a ingress-controller: Here is a Workflow from MS to install ingress-nginx as IC on your Cluster.
You will then only expose the ingress-controller to the internet and could also specify the loadBalancerIP statically if you created the PublicIP in advance:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
annotations:
service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-resource-group: myResourceGroup # only needed if the LB is in another RG
name: ingress-nginx-controller
spec:
loadBalancerIP: <YOUR_STATIC_IP>
type: LoadBalancer
The Ingress Controller then will route incoming traffic to your application with an Ingress resource:
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: minimal-ingress
spec:
ingressClassName: nginx # ingress-nginx specifix
rules:
- http:
paths:
- path: /
pathType: Prefix
backend:
service:
name: test
port:
number: 80
PS: Never expose your application directly to the internet, always use the ingress controller

Answer 2

In your Deployment, you configured your container to listen on port 8080. You need to add targetport value set to 8080 in the Service definition.
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