- Reverting to a VNC server similar to what was deployed in the Amsterdam
- release was also considered but there were many issues with resolution, lack
- of volume mount, /etc/hosts dynamic update, file upload that were a tall order
- to solve in time for the Beijing release.
+ | Alternatives Considered:
+
+ - Kubernetes port forwarding was considered but discarded as it would require
+ the end user to run a script that opens up port forwarding tunnels to each of
+ the pods that provides a portal application widget.
+
+ - Reverting to a VNC server similar to what was deployed in the Amsterdam
+ release was also considered but there were many issues with resolution, lack
+ of volume mount, /etc/hosts dynamic update, file upload that were a tall order
+ to solve in time for the Beijing release.
+
+ Observations:
+
+ - If you are not using floating IPs in your Kubernetes deployment and directly attaching
+ a public IP address (i.e. by using your public provider network) to your K8S Node
+ VMs' network interface, then the output of 'kubectl -n onap get services | grep "portal-app"'
+ will show your public IP instead of the private network's IP. Therefore,
+ you can grab this public IP directly (as compared to trying to find the floating
+ IP first) and map this IP in /etc/hosts.