Customize the Upstream Nameservers used by kube-dns by Pods when looking up external hostnames from within a Kubernetes cluster. I found that adding custom Upstream Nameservers to my kube-dns solved many issues encountered in in the past with external hostname resolution on individual Pods.
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The following configuration sets the Upstream Nameservers to use Google’s DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
You can apply the above configuration with the following command:
kubectl apply -f https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cjimti/3a500e8efffa1fcaedda8b844c7d6aa7/raw/ae7329733452dda8cce573fb78f33c22c65cb3fa/00-kube-dns-upstream.yml
If you are having trouble with DNS on your Kubernetes cluster, you may want to read the official documentation on Debugging DNS Resolution.
Port Forwarding / Local Development
Check out kubefwd for a simple command line utility that bulk forwards services of one or more namespaces to your local workstation.
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This blog post, titled: "Kubernetes Custom Upstream DNS: Customize upstream DNS resolution." by Craig Johnston, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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