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Private communication between a external droplet and a pod in k8 cluster

Posted August 25, 2019 2k views
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Hello!

I am trying to figure out a means to have a private communication between a pod in k8 cluster and an external droplet in the same data centre from same account.

I know i can expose a loadbalancer/nodeport service from the pod and get access but i want a private networking between these and totally avoid public access.

Any insights are appreciated.

Thanks!

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jkwiatkoski August 26, 2019

Hi there!

Unfortunately, DOKS NodePort services only bind to the nodes public interface at this time. One option to control access is to use and ingress controller such as nginx(https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx) , and then configure ingress rules using ingress objects(https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/).

By using this you can setup a whitelist on the ingress controller and whitelist your external droplet’s IP: https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/user-guide/nginx-configuration/annotations/#whitelist-source-range

This would allow you to expose that service publicly but only allow one IP to actually contact your service.

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John Kwiatkoski
Senior Developer Support Engineer

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  • kyawthetkhine January 8, 2021

    Is there now this kind of communication between DOKS and exernal droplet in the same VPC? I like to setup like this scenario. And DO support this feature yet?

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  • bogdanS July 19, 2021

    @jkwiatkoski did anything change in the meantime? I’d love to get private networking going from droplet to kubernetes service, but the service can’t seem to get a valid (within the range of the VPC) private ip

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