How to get the GW_IP?

[Imesh7]

I am beginner to the kubernetes enviornment.
I am trying to run the example coffee project. Then it says to save the GW_IP & GW_PORT where can I find those two?

Thank you

[sjberman]

This is the IP of the Service that you create for NGINX Gateway Fabric. See the guide here for exposing NGF.

If you use a port-forward to your local machine, then you would just use 127.0.0.1.

[sjberman]

What environment are you running kubernetes in?

You are using a NodePort service, which means you have to access the service through a Node IP and NodePort (31761 for port 80, as you can see in the service output above).

You attempted to send the request to the ClusterIP, which is only accessible within the kubernetes network.

[Imesh7]

I am using my windows machine(wsl) with kind.
I had tried with access using the NodeIP but I got connection refused.

[Imesh7]

I tried to setup the environment (docs/developer/quickstart.md), it works well I guess.
Now I want to test the example project , On there I am stuck with.

Thanks

[sjberman]

If running on a local kind environment, I find it easiest to use port-forwarding. For example,

kubectl -n nginx-gateway port-forward svc/<your-ngf-service> 8080:80

Then you use IP 127.0.0.1 and port 8080.

[Imesh7]

@sjberman
It works.
I am totally beginner to the kubernetes environemt. Sorry for your time.

Thank you

[sjberman]

@Imesh7 No problem at all! We all have to start somewhere :)