Let's validate that all three Elasticsearch nodes has been successfully added to the Elasticsearch cluster once more. We can do this by sending a GET request to /_cluster/state?pretty and checking the output.
But since we want to keep the database service internal, we haven't exposed it to an external-reachable URL, so the only way to validate this is to SSH into one of the VPS and query Elasticsearch using its private IP.
However, kubectl provides a more convenient alternative. kubectl has a port-forward command, which forwards requests going into a port on localhost to a port on one of the Pods. We can use this feature to send requests from our local machine to each Elasticsearch instance. ...
