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Forward Traffic to StatefulSet

Forward Traffic to all Pods of a StatefulSet

There is the usual way of forwarding traffic to a Service matching a StatefulSet. Create a Service with the pods label selector as selector, and use the service name as Backend ServiceName.

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
  name: http
  namespace: default
spec:
  serviceName: "nginx-set"
  replicas: 2
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: gcr.io/google_containers/nginx-slim:0.8
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
          name: http
----
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx-set
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    name: http
  clusterIP: None
  selector:
    app: nginx

Create another service for StatefulSets pods with selector.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx-service
  namespace: default
  labels:
    app: nginx
spec:
  ports:
  - port: 80
    name: http
  selector:
    app: nginx

And Use the service in the ingress Backend service name, as:

backend:
  service:
    name: nginx-service
    port:
      number: 80

That will forward traffic to your StatefulSets Pods.

Forward Traffic to specific Pods of a StatefulSet

There is a way to send traffic to all or specific pod of a StatefulSet using voyager. You can set hostNames field in Backend, traffic will only forwarded to those pods.

For Example the above StatefulSet will create two pod.

web-0
web-1

Those are the host names.

Now Create a ingress that will only forward traffic to web-0

apiVersion: voyager.appscode.com/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: test-ingress
  namespace: default
spec:
  rules:
  - host: appscode.example.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: '/testPath'
        backend:
          hostNames:
          - web-0
          service:
            name: nginx-set #! There is no extra service. This
            port:
              number: 80    # is the Statefulset's Headless Service

Viola. Now all /testPath traffic will be sent to pod web-0 only. There is no extra service also. The StatefulSet’s Headless Service is enough. By using all the hostNames You can forward traffic to all pods.