Serverless Kubernetes (ASK) clusters support service discovery for intranet Services, headless Services, and ClusterIP 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 VPCs that you create. Your private domain names are not accessible in other network environments.

Procedure

  1. Create a Deployment and Services.

    You can add the following sample code to a YAML file and run the kubectl create -f nginx-service-ack.yaml command to create a Deployment and Services. 

    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. On the page that appears, click the Hosted Zones tab.
  5. Select the zone that you want to manage and click Configure in the Actions column.
    Note All PrivateZone records are in the $svc.$ns format. Each PrivateZone record maps a Service to an IP address. The following resolution rules apply:
    • A LoadBalancer Service corresponds to only one PrivateZone record. The record maps the Service to the IP address of the Server Load Balancer (SLB) instance.
    • A ClusterIP Service corresponds to only one PrivateZone record. The record maps the Service to the IP address of the cluster.
    • A headless Service corresponds to multiple PrivateZone records. The records map the Service to the IP addresses of backend pods.
    You can access a Service within the VPC through the private domain name of the Service.
    • You can use $svc.$ns.svc.cluster.local.$clusterId to access Services that are discovered in the current cluster. You can also use the long domain name to access Services in other clusters after you use Alibaba Cloud DNS PrivateZone to discover these Services.
    • You can use $svc to access Services in the current namespace and use $svc.$ns to access Services in other namespaces.

    For more information, see serverless-k8s-examples.