Kubernetes : Exposing a container's port

This techniques is useful more for debugging purposes more than anything else.

We could expose a container's port on the host port and access it.

Below is a Yaml file of a pod, we could access its container on port "80":

We create our pod using the below command:

We use port forwarding to be able to forward a request on our local host on port "80" to port "80" of our nginx container.

We could access our nginx pod by using the "localhost" IP address as below:

We could also use the "Curl" utility that transfers data to and from server.

"Curl" support various protocols like for example - http, https, ldap, ... - :

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