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title: Connect a Front End to a Back End Using a Service
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title: Connect a Frontend to a Backend Using Services
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content_type: tutorial
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weight: 70
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---
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<!-- overview -->
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This task shows how to create a frontend and a backend
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microservice. The backend microservice is a hello greeter. The
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frontend and backend are connected using a Kubernetes
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{{< glossary_tooltip term_id="service" >}} object.
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This task shows how to create a _frontend_ and a _backend_ microservice. The backend
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microservice is a hello greeter. The frontend exposes the backend using nginx and a
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Kubernetes {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="service" >}} object.
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## {{% heading "objectives" %}}
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* Create and run a microservice using a {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="deployment" >}} object.
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* Route traffic to the backend using a frontend.
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* Use a Service object to connect the frontend application to the
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backend application.
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* Create and run a sample `hello` backend microservice using a
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{{< glossary_tooltip term_id="deployment" >}} object.
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* Use a Service object to send traffic to the backend microservice's multiple replicas.
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* Create and run a `nginx` frontend microservice, also using a Deployment object.
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* Configure the frontend microservice to send traffic to the backend microservice.
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* Use a Service object of `type=LoadBalancer` to expose the frontend microservice
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outside the cluster.
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## {{% heading "prerequisites" %}}
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@@ -34,24 +36,24 @@ require a supported environment. If your environment does not support this, you
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The backend is a simple hello greeter microservice. Here is the configuration
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file for the backend Deployment:
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{{< codenew file="service/access/hello.yaml" >}}
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{{< codenew file="service/access/backend-deployment.yaml" >}}
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Create the backend Deployment:
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```shell
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kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/hello.yaml
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kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/backend-deployment.yaml
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```
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View information about the backend Deployment:
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```shell
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kubectl describe deployment hello
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kubectl describe deployment backend
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```
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The output is similar to this:
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```
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Name: hello
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Name: backend
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Namespace: default
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CreationTimestamp: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:21:02 -0700
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Labels: app=hello
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@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ Labels: app=hello
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track=stable
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Annotations: deployment.kubernetes.io/revision=1
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Selector: app=hello,tier=backend,track=stable
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Replicas: 7 desired | 7 updated | 7 total | 7 available | 0 unavailable
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Replicas: 3 desired | 3 updated | 3 total | 3 available | 0 unavailable
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StrategyType: RollingUpdate
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MinReadySeconds: 0
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RollingUpdateStrategy: 1 max unavailable, 1 max surge
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Available True MinimumReplicasAvailable
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Progressing True NewReplicaSetAvailable
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OldReplicaSets: <none>
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NewReplicaSet: hello-3621623197 (7/7 replicas created)
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NewReplicaSet: hello-3621623197 (3/3 replicas created)
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Events:
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...
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```
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## Creating the backend Service object
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## Creating the `hello` Service object
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The key to connecting a frontend to a backend is the backend
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The key to sending requests from a frontend to a backend is the backend
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Service. A Service creates a persistent IP address and DNS name entry
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so that the backend microservice can always be reached. A Service uses
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{{< glossary_tooltip text="selectors" term_id="selector" >}} to find
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First, explore the Service configuration file:
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{{< codenew file="service/access/hello-service.yaml" >}}
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{{< codenew file="service/access/backend-service.yaml" >}}
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In the configuration file, you can see that the Service routes traffic to Pods
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that have the labels `app: hello` and `tier: backend`.
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In the configuration file, you can see that the Service, named `hello` routes
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traffic to Pods that have the labels `app: hello` and `tier: backend`.
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Create the `hello` Service:
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Create the backend Service:
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```shell
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kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/hello-service.yaml
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kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/backend-service.yaml
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```
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At this point, you have a backend Deployment running, and you have a
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Service that can route traffic to it.
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At this point, you have a `backend` Deployment running three replicas of your `hello`
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application, and you have a Service that can route traffic to them. However, this
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service is neither available nor resolvable outside the cluster.
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## Creating the frontend
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Now that you have your backend, you can create a frontend that connects to the backend.
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The frontend connects to the backend worker Pods by using the DNS name
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given to the backend Service. The DNS name is "hello", which is the value
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of the `name` field in the preceding Service configuration file.
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Now that you have your backend running, you can create a frontend that is accessible
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outside the cluster, and connects to the backend by proxying requests to it.
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The Pods in the frontend Deployment run an nginx image that is configured
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to find the hello backend Service. Here is the nginx configuration file:
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The frontend sends requests to the backend worker Pods by using the DNS name
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given to the backend Service. The DNS name is `hello`, which is the value
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of the `name` field in the `examples/service/access/backend-service.yaml`
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configuration file.
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{{< codenew file="service/access/frontend.conf" >}}
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The Pods in the frontend Deployment run a nginx image that is configured
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to proxy requests to the `hello` backend Service. Here is the nginx configuration file:
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Similar to the backend, the frontend has a Deployment and a Service. The
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configuration for the Service has `type: LoadBalancer`, which means that
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the Service uses the default load balancer of your cloud provider.
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{{< codenew file="service/access/frontend-nginx.conf" >}}
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{{< codenew file="service/access/frontend.yaml" >}}
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Similar to the backend, the frontend has a Deployment and a Service. An important
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difference to notice between the backend and frontend services, is that the
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configuration for the frontend Service has `type: LoadBalancer`, which means that
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the Service uses a load balancer provisioned by your cloud provider and will be
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accessible from outside the cluster.
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{{< codenew file="service/access/frontend-service.yaml" >}}
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{{< codenew file="service/access/frontend-deployment.yaml" >}}
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Create the frontend Deployment and Service:
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```shell
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kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/frontend.yaml
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kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/frontend-deployment.yaml
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kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/frontend-service.yaml
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```
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The output verifies that both resources were created:
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## Send traffic through the frontend
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The frontend and backends are now connected. You can hit the endpoint
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The frontend and backend are now connected. You can hit the endpoint
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by using the curl command on the external IP of your frontend Service.
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```shell
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To delete the Services, enter this command:
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```shell
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kubectl delete services frontend hello
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kubectl delete services frontend backend
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```
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To delete the Deployments, the ReplicaSets and the Pods that are running the backend and frontend applications, enter this command:
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```shell
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kubectl delete deployment frontend hello
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kubectl delete deployment frontend backend
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```
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## {{% heading "whatsnext" %}}
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* Learn more about [Services](/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/)
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* Learn more about [ConfigMaps](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-configmap/)
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* Learn more about [DNS for Service and Pods](/docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service/)
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