Service exposition

For some deployed products it is sufficient to be only accessible within the Kubernetes cluster, while others need to be accessible from outside the Kubernetes cluster. This can e.g. be from your internal corporate network when running on bare metal, your internal network in your cloud provider or the Internet.

As of the release 23.4, the Stackable Operators create Kubernetes Service objects to expose the deployed product. For security reasons, the Services default to the ClusterIP type in order to avoid exposing anything to the public. You can specify the type within the custom resource field spec.clusterConfig.listenerClass by setting it to either:

Please note that as of the release 23.4 not all operators support all the mentioned Service types.

In a future release, the ListenerClass provided by the listener-operator will be supported to make things more flexible.