Why is curl failing to connect to a Kubernetes pod on exposed 80 port in minikube?

Question

I am using minikube in VM-ware workstation 17 player (Ubuntu OS). When I expose my container on containerPort: 80, I am getting an error "curl: (7) Failed to connect to 10.244.0.49 port 80 after 21041 ms: Connection refused". Please help me to resolve my error...

I used $kubectl get pods -o wide $curl --ipv4 10.244.0.49:80 (Private ip of pod) But it is not working.

have you created a service to expose service hosted in container ? — Micheal Choudhary, May 24 '23 at 15:38
what is the local ip of your client, from which you are executing curl command ? — Micheal Choudhary, May 24 '23 at 15:41
dont forget to set my answer as solution, if it is the solution. — Micheal Choudhary, May 24 '23 at 18:14

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 24 '23 at 15:50

You can not access a service hosted in Minikube without creating a tunnel. You need to keep in mind that Minikube runs within a virtual machine (VM), and its network is separate from your host machine.

You created a Deployment and successfully created NodePort Service.

You need not create a tunnel by following command:

minikube service serviceNodePort --url

Try to open http://127.0.0.1:TUNNEL_Port into your browser.

Here is the official minikube Documentation

Why is curl failing to connect to a Kubernetes pod on exposed 80 port in minikube?

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