Minikube ClusterIP not reachable

Question

i have created a deployment and a service to deploy an angular app. I'm using minikube and here is my deployment.yaml:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: angular-deployment
spec:
  selector: 
    matchLabels:
      app: angular
  replicas: 1
  template:
    metadata:
     labels:
      app: angular
  spec: 
    containers:
    - name: angular
      image: dhartl231198/k3s-dashboard
      imagePullPolicy: Always
      ports:
      - containerPort: 80

---

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
 name: angular-service
spec:
 selector:
   app: angular
 ports:
 - protocol: TCP
   port: 8080
   targetPort: 80
 type: ClusterIP

the deployment is already reachable within the cluster but i cannot access it from my machine.

Answer 1

You haven't exposed your Service to outside of your cluster. That's why you can't access the Service from your local machine.

Now, you have two options:

1. Make the Service type NodePort, then follow this official minikube guide.
2. Use kubectl port-forward svc/angular-service :8080 on a terminal. Then, use the forwarded port to connect from the local machine.