Azure kubernetes service loadbalancer external IP not accessible - azure

Question

I am new to the world of Kubernetes and was testing a sample Django "Hello world" app deployment. Using docker-compose I was able to access the hell world page on a browser but I need to use Kubernetes. So I tested two options and none of them worked.
1) I created an Azure CICD pipeline to build and push the image in ACR using the following Dockerfile,
FROM python:3.8
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE 1
ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1
RUN mkdir /hello_world
WORKDIR /hello_world
COPY . /hello_world/
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt
CMD [ "python", "manage.py", "runserver", "0.0.0.0:8000" ]
The pipeline completes successfully and uploads the image in the repository.
Now I use kubectl to deploy using the deployment file,
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: django-helloworld
spec:
replicas: 3
selector:
matchLabels:
app: django-helloworld
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: django-helloworld
spec:
containers:
- name: django-helloworld
image: acrshgpdev1.azurecr.io/django-helloworld:194
#imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- containerPort: 8000
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: django-helloworld-service
spec:
type: LoadBalancer
ports:
- port: 80
selector:
app: django-helloworld
The deployment and service are created but when I try to access the external IP of the LB service through a browser the page is inaccessible. I used the external ip:port and it didn't work.
Any thoughts why would this be happening?
2) I used the same Dockerfile but a different deployment file(changed the image to the locally created image & removed LB service) to deploy the app to my local Kubernetes. the deployment file was as follows,
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: django-helloworld-service
spec:
selector:
app: django-helloworld
ports:
- protocol: TCP
port: 80
targetPort: 30800
type: NodePort
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: django-helloworld
spec:
replicas: 3
selector:
matchLabels:
app: django-helloworld
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: django-helloworld
spec:
containers:
- name: django-helloworld
image: django-helloworld:1.0
#imagePullPolicy: Always
ports:
- containerPort: 8000
It creates the deployment and service but doesn't assign an external IP to the NodePort service so I am not able to figure out what service should I choose to test the app is successful. I know I can't choose a LB as it doesn't go locally and I need to deploy using a cloud service.

Answer 1

just configure your service to be of type LoadBalancer and do a proper port mapping:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: django-helloworld-service
spec:
type: LoadBalancer
ports:
- port: 80
targetPort: 8000
selector:
app: django-helloworld
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/

Answer 2

Make sure the deployment has associated healthy pods too (they show as Running and with 1/1 next to their name). If there aren't, make sure your cluster can successfully pull from acrshgpdev1.azurecr.io registry; you can integrate directly an AKS cluster with an ACR registry following this article:
az aks update -n myAKSCluster -g myResourceGroup --attach-acr acrshgpdev1.azurecr.io
or by adding the SP of the AKS cluster manually to the Reader role on the ACR.