DNS service for ingress controllers running on your minikube server
This version is a fork of the original minikube-ingress-dns project from cryptexlab. The project has been inactive. I have taken the code and updated dependencies and security updates.
The DNS service in order to be able to run DNS queries against local defined domains on the K8s cluster
When running minikube locally you are highly likely to want to run your services on an ingress controller so that you don't have to use minikube tunnel or NodePorts to access your services. While NodePort might be ok in a lot of circumstances in order to test some features an ingress is necessary. Ingress controllers are great because you can define your entire architecture in something like a helm chart and all your services will be available. There is only 1 problem. That is that your ingress controller works basically off of dns and while running minikube that means that your local dns names like local.service will have to resolve to $(minikube ip) not really a big deal except the only real way to do this is to add an entry for every service in your /etc/hosts file. This gets messy for obvious reasons. If you have a lot of services running that each have their own dns entry then you have to set those up manually. Even if you automate it you then need to rely on the host operating system storing configurations instead of storing them in your cluster. To make it worse it has to be constantly maintained and updated as services are added, remove, and renamed. I call it the /ets/hosts pollution problem.
What if you could just access your local services magically without having to edit your /etc/hosts file? Well now you can. This project acts as a DNS service that runs inside your kubernetes cluster. All you have to do is install the service and add the $(minikube ip) as a DNS server on your host machine. Each time the dns service is queried an API call is made to the kubernetes master service for a list of all the ingresses. If a match is found for the name a response is given with an IP address as the $(minikube ip) which was provided when the helm chart was installed. So for example lets say my minikube ip address is 192.168.99.106 and I have an ingress controller with the name of myservice.local then I would get a result like so:
#bash:~$ nslookup myservice.test
Server: 192.168.99.106
Address: 192.168.99.106#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: myservice.test
Address: 192.168.99.106
minikube start
kubectl apply -f app/dns-server/k8s/Create a file in /etc/resolver/minikube-profilename-test
domain test
nameserver 192.168.99.169
search_order 1
timeout 5
Replace 192.168.99.169 with your minikube ip
TODO
kubectl apply -f example/nslookup hello-john.test $(minikube ip)
nslookup hello-jane.test $(minikube ip)ping hello-john.testExpected results:
PING hello-john.test (192.168.99.169): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.99.169: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.361 ms
ping hello-jane.testPING hello-jane.test (192.168.99.169): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.99.169: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.262 ms
curl http://hello-john.testExpected result:
Hello, world!
Version: 1.0.0
Hostname: hello-world-app-557ff7dbd8-64mtv
curl http://hello-jane.testExpected result:
Hello, world!
Version: 1.0.0
Hostname: hello-world-app-557ff7dbd8-64mtv
.localhost domains will not correctly resolve on chromium since it is used as a loopback address. Instead use .test, .example, or .invalid
Each time a file is created or a change is made to a file in /etc/resolver you will need to run the following to reload Mac OS mDNS resolver.
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist