Mastering Service Mesh

Testing the application through curl

Let's check the same through curl by providing certificates. Run the following curl to check whether the nginx controller is routing the traffic well:

$ export INGRESS_PORT=$(kubectl -n kube-system get service nginx-controller -o jsonpath='{.spec.ports[?(@.name=="https")].port}') ; echo $INGRESS_PORT443$ export INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl -n kube-system get service nginx-controller -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress..ip}') ; echo $INGRESS_HOST192.168.142.249$ curl -Ls -HHost:booksapp.linkerd.local \--resolve booksapp.linkerd.local:$INGRESS_HOST:$INGRESS_PORT \--cacert root-ca.crt https://booksapp.linkerd.local

The IP address of the ingress gateway may change in your case. Note that we pass the root ...