Mastering Service Mesh

Defining Ingress for the Consul dashboard

Even without using Ingress, it is possible to use NodePort to access the dashboard from within the VM. However, we will create an optional Ingress entry for the Consul dashboard so that this can be accessed from outside the Kubernetes cluster. Follow these steps:

1. Add an entry in /etc/hosts in the VM for the Consul Web UI called webconsole.consul.local that points to the Nginx Ingress controller:

$ export INGRESS_HOST=$(kubectl -n kube-system get service nginx-controller \-o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress..ip}') ; echo $INGRESS_HOST192.168.142.249$ sudo sed -i '/webconsole.consul.local/d' /etc/hosts$ echo "$INGRESS_HOST webconsole.consul.local" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

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