Using kube-proxy to access deployments

When we create a service on k8 cluster, it is often initialized with type of ClusterIP.

We can still access the service using kubectl proxy.

kubectl proxy allows one to interact with the API without the need for a Bearer token.

Assuming we have a service called guestbook, we can access it as below:

kubectl proxy > /dev/null &

KC_PROXY_PID = $!

SERVICE_PREFIX=http://localhost:8001/api/v1/proxy

GUESTBOOK_URL = $SERVICE_PREFIX/namespaces/default/services/guestbook