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title: Making kubernetes kube-dns publicly reachable
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pub_date: 2021-06-13
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author: ungleich
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twitter_handle: ungleich
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abstract:
Looking into IPv6 only DNS provided by kubernetes
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body:
## Introduction
If you have seen our
[article about running kubernetes
Ingress-less](/u/blog/kubernetes-without-ingress/), you are aware that
we are pushing IPv6 only kubernetes clusters at ungleich.
Today, we are looking at making the "internal" kube-dns service world
reachable using IPv6 and global DNS servers.
## The kubernetes DNS service
If you have a look at your typical k8s cluster, you will notice that
you usually have two coredns pods running:
```
% kubectl -n kube-system get pods -l k8s-app=kube-dns
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
coredns-558bd4d5db-gz5c7 1/1 Running 0 6d
coredns-558bd4d5db-hrzhz 1/1 Running 0 6d
```
These pods are usually served by the **kube-dns** service:
```
% kubectl -n kube-system get svc -l k8s-app=kube-dns
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
kube-dns ClusterIP 2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::a <none> 53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP 6d1h
```
As you can see, the kube-dns service is running on a publicly
reachable IPv6 address.
## IPv6 only DNS
IPv6 only DNS servers have one drawback: they cannot be reached via DNS
recursions, if the resolver is IPv4 only.
At [ungleich we run a variety of
services](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure/wiki)
to make IPv6 only services usable in the real world. In case of DNS,
we are using **DNS forwarders**. They are acting similar to HTTP
proxies, but for DNS.
So in our main DNS servers, dns1.ungleich.ch, dns2.ungleich.ch
and dns3.ungleich.ch we have added the following configuration:
```
zone "k8s.place7.ungleich.ch" {
type forward;
forward only;
forwarders { 2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::a; };
};
```
This tells the DNS servers to forward DNS queries that come in for
k8s.place7.ungleich.ch to **2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::a**.
Additionally we have added **DNS delegation** in the
place7.ungleich.ch zone:
```
k8s NS dns1.ungleich.ch.
k8s NS dns2.ungleich.ch.
k8s NS dns3.ungleich.ch.
```
## Using the kubernetes DNS service in the wild
With this configuration, we can now access IPv6 only
kubernetes services directly from the Internet. Let's first discover
the kube-dns service itself:
```
% dig kube-dns.kube-system.svc.k8s.place7.ungleich.ch. aaaa
; <<>> DiG 9.16.16 <<>> kube-dns.kube-system.svc.k8s.place7.ungleich.ch. aaaa
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23274
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
; COOKIE: f61925944f5218c9ac21e43960c64f254792e60f2b10f3f5 (good)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;kube-dns.kube-system.svc.k8s.place7.ungleich.ch. IN AAAA
;; ANSWER SECTION:
kube-dns.kube-system.svc.k8s.place7.ungleich.ch. 27 IN AAAA 2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::a
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
k8s.place7.ungleich.ch. 13 IN NS kube-dns.kube-system.svc.k8s.place7.ungleich.ch.
;; Query time: 18 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.4.188#53(192.168.4.188)
;; WHEN: Sun Jun 13 20:32:41 CEST 2021
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 146
```
As you can see, the **kube-dns** service in the **kube-system**
namespace resolves to 2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::a, which is exactly what we
have configured.
At the moment, there is also an etherpad test service
named "ungleich-etherpad" running:
```
% kubectl get svc -l app=ungleichetherpad
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
ungleich-etherpad ClusterIP 2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::b7db <none> 9001/TCP 3d19h
```
Let's first verify that it resolves:
```
% dig +short ungleich-etherpad.default.svc.k8s.place7.ungleich.ch aaaa
2a0a:e5c0:13:e2::b7db
```
And if that works, well, then we should also be able to access the
service itself!
```
% curl -I http://ungleich-etherpad.default.svc.k8s.place7.ungleich.ch:9001/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
X-Powered-By: Express
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Referrer-Policy: same-origin
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 6039
ETag: W/"1797-Dq3+mr7XP0PQshikMNRpm5RSkGA"
Set-Cookie: express_sid=s%3AZGKdDe3FN1v5UPcS-7rsZW7CeloPrQ7p.VaL1V0M4780TBm8bT9hPVQMWPX5Lcte%2BzotO9Lsejlk; Path=/; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2021 18:36:23 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=5
```
(attention, this is a test service and might not be running when you
read this article at a later time)
## More of this
We are discussing
kubernetes and IPv6 related topics in
**the #hacking:ungleich.ch Matrix channel**
([you can signup here if you don't have an
account](https://chat.with.ungleich.ch)) and will post more about our
k8s journey in this blog. Stay tuned!