Hands-On Server-Side Web Development with Swift

Exposing the deployment and launching the app

End users won't be able to get access to your application instances in the cluster unless you explicitly create a service object that exposes an external IP address for your application deployment. To do so, perform the following steps:

1. Use the kubectl expose command to change the access of your newly-created deployment to public:

$ kubectl expose deployment/my-new-kitura-app-deployment --type=NodePort --port=8080 --name=my-new-kitura-app-service --target-port=8080

Here, you instruct Kubernetes to expose your deployment service through the NodePort service, my-new-kitura-app-service, which serves on port 8080 and connects to the containers that are also on the 8080 target port.

2. Run the following ...