Where is the UI actually running in kubernetes?

Consul
1

hey folks,

everything in my consul federation is working as ive expected it so far. After testing stuff from CLI, I enabled UI with ingress and upgraded the helm chart. I can see the consul-ui service and ingress but can’t actually access it. Just goes connection refused.

Then i tried port forwarding

/dc1 » kubectl port-forward pod/consul-server-0 8500:8500                                                                   127 ↵ 
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:8500 -> 8500
Forwarding from [::1]:8500 -> 8500
Handling connection for 8500
E1014 11:55:13.586378   18036 portforward.go:400] an error occurred forwarding 8500 -> 8500: error forwarding port 8500 to pod 2c58d13a21d323cbaa9b3322023571f55965a2f164c7e756b640e305d802b94a, uid : exit status 1: 2021/10/14 09:55:13 socat[1528988] E connect(5, AF=2 127.0.0.1:8500, 16): Connection refused
Handling connection for 8500

~/dc1 » kubectl port-forward consul-server-0 5000:443                                                                              
Forwarding from 127.0.0.1:5000 -> 443
Forwarding from [::1]:5000 -> 443
Handling connection for 5000
E1014 11:53:48.119002   18003 portforward.go:400] an error occurred forwarding 5000 -> 443: error forwarding port 443 to pod 2c58d13a21d323cbaa9b3322023571f55965a2f164c7e756b640e305d802b94a, uid : exit status 1: 2021/10/14 09:53:48 socat[1526965] E connect(5, AF=2 127.0.0.1:443, 16): Connection refused

now i am not sure exactly how the helm chart is configured but where is the actual UI?

2

Here is the reply to the actual ingress that was provisioned by GKE

~/Documents/repos/test/dc1 » curl -k xx.xx.xx.10:443                                                                                                    <html>
<head><title>400 The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<center>The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
3

kubectl get service consul-ui shows me the EXTERNAL-IP that I need to hit via browser to access the Consul UI.

My consul UI is deployed as a LoadBalancer type-

ui:
  service:
    type: "LoadBalancer"

Does this help?

4

Thanks. But I am using ingress object to expose the consul-ui service which is of type clusterIP.

5

It looks like you have HTTPS enabled so for your port forward you’d need port 8501 and for your curl to your ingress did you try using https:// at the front?

6

Thanks, does this look okay to you?

ui:
  enabled: true
  service:
    enabled: true
    type: null
    port:
      http: 80
    #  https: 443
    nodePort:
      http: null
      https: null
    annotations: null
    additionalSpec: null
  ingress:
    enabled: true
    hosts: 
      - host: myendpoint.mydomain.com
    tls: 
     - hosts:
        - myendpoint.mydomain.com
    annotations: |
      "kubernetes.io/ingress.class": "my-ingress-clas"