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Deploying a TCP Load Balancer type of Service for User Workloads

MicroShift offers an built-in implementation of network load balancers (Services of type LoadBalancer). It will use the node IP as the ingress IP of the loadbalancer type of service.

Create MicroShift Server

Use the instructions in the Install MicroShift on RHEL for Edge document to configure a virtual machine running MicroShift.

Log into the virtual machine and run the following commands to configure the MicroShift access and check if the PODs are up and running.

mkdir ~/.kube
sudo cat /var/lib/microshift/resources/kubeadmin/kubeconfig > ~/.kube/config
oc get pods -A

Install User Workload

Log into the virtual machine and create the namespace to be used for deploying the test application.

NAMESPACE=nginx-lb-test
oc create ns $NAMESPACE

Run the following command to deploy 3 replicas of a test nginx application in the specified namespace.

oc apply -n $NAMESPACE -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openshift/microshift/main/docs/config/nginx-IP-header.yaml

The application is configured to return the X-Server-IP header with the container IP address.

Verify that all the 3 replicas of the application started successfully.

oc get pods -n $NAMESPACE

Create Load Balancer Service

Log into the virtual machine and run the following command to create the LoadBalancer service for nginx application.

oc create -n $NAMESPACE -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 81
    targetPort: 8080
  selector:
    app: nginx
  type: LoadBalancer
EOF

The port setting should be a host port that is not occupied by other LoadBalancer services, host processes or MicroShift components.

Verify that the service exists and an external IP address has been assigned to it. And the external IP is the same as the node IP.

oc get svc -n $NAMESPACE
NAME    TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP     PORT(S)        AGE
nginx   LoadBalancer   10.43.183.104   192.168.1.241   81:32434/TCP   2m

Test Load Balancer

Log into the virtual machine and run the following commands to verify that the load balancer distributes requests among all the running application instances.

Set the EXTERNAL_IP environment variable to the external IP of the LoadBalancer service.

EXTERNAL_IP=192.168.1.241
seq 5 | xargs -Iz curl -s -I http://$EXTERNAL_IP:81 | grep X-Server-IP

The above command attempts to perform five connections to the nginx application using the external IP address of the LoadBalancer service. Only the value of the X-Server-IP header is filtered from the application response.

The output of this command should contain different IP addresses, demonstrating that the load balancer service works by distributing the traffic among the instances of the application.

X-Server-IP: 10.42.0.41
X-Server-IP: 10.42.0.41
X-Server-IP: 10.42.0.43
X-Server-IP: 10.42.0.41
X-Server-IP: 10.42.0.43