Serverless Kubernetes (ASK) clusters support service discovery for intranet Services, headless Services, and ClusterIP type Services.

Prerequisites

Background information

Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone is a private domain name resolution and management service based on Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). You can map a private domain name to an IP address in one or more custom VPCs. Your private domain names are not accessible in other network environments.

Procedure

  1. Create a Deployment and a Service.

    You can copy the following content into a YAML file and run the kubectl create -f nginx-service-ack.yaml command to create a Deployment and a Service. 

    apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx-headless-service
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    protocol: TCP
  selector:
    app: nginx
  clusterIP: None
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx-clusterip-service
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    protocol: TCP
  selector:
    app: nginx
  type: ClusterIP
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx-intranet-service
  annotations:
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/alicloud-loadbalancer-address-type: intranet
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    protocol: TCP
  selector:
    app: nginx
  type: LoadBalancer
---
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx-deployment
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nginx
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image:  nginx:alpine
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
  2. Run the following command to view the state of the created application:
    kubectl get svc,pod,deployment
  3. Log on to the Alibaba Cloud DNS console.
  4. In the left-side navigation pane, click PrivateZone to go to the All Zones tab.
  5. On the All Zones tab, find the zone that you want to manage and click Configure in the Actions column. The resolution settings page appears.
    Note Each record is in the $svc.$ns format and corresponds to an IP address. The following resolution rules apply:
    • A LoadBalancer type Service corresponds to only one resolution record in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone. The record corresponds to the IP address of the related Server Load Balancer (SLB) instance.
    • A ClusterIP type Service corresponds to only one resolution record in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone. The record corresponds to the IP address of the cluster.
    • A headless Service corresponds to multiple resolution records in Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone. These records correspond to the IP addresses of the backend pods.
    You can access a Service by using the private domain name in the VPC.
    • Long domain name: You can use a long domain name of the $svc.$ns.svc.cluster.local.$clusterId format to access Services that are synchronized from other clusters to Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone.
    • Short domain name: You can use a short domain name of the $svc format to access Services in the same namespace. You can use a short domain name of the $svc.$ns format to access Services in other namespaces.

    For more information, see serverless-k8s-examples.