Getting Started guide for K8s incorrectly states minikube doesn't support LoadBalancer

[biasedbit]

The Pulumi & Kubernetes guide can be updated to remove the conditional service logic for minikube. I got through the example using minikube with isMinikube set to false.

Steps to reproduce:

1. In a separate terminal, run minikube tunnel (required for LoadBalancer to obtain IP 127.0.0.1)

2. Follow all instructions with isMinikube set to false

3. Modify frontend service external port to 8080:

   -- "ports": [{ "port": 80, "target_port": 80, "protocol": "TCP" }],
   ++ "ports": [{ "port": 8080, "target_port": 80, "protocol": "TCP" }],

4. Run pulumi up

    Type                              Name               Status            
    +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack               pulumi-test-local  created (13s)     
    +   ├─ kubernetes:apps/v1:Deployment  nginx              created (2s)      
    +   └─ kubernetes:core/v1:Service     nginx              created (10s)     
   
   Outputs:
       ip: "127.0.0.1"
   
   Resources:
       + 3 created
   

5. Use curl to validate setup:

   ❯ curl -I 127.0.0.1:8080
   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   Server: nginx/1.25.2
   ...

Notes:

• Used port 8080 instead of 80 as the latter will prompt for admin password input in minikube tunnel
• minikube tunnel must be running, otherwise service creation will stall waiting for IP assignment

Env details

❯ uname -orm
Darwin 23.0.0 arm64

❯ minikube version
minikube version: v1.31.2
commit: fd7ecd9c4599bef9f04c0986c4a0187f98a4396e

❯ pulumi version
v3.88.0

[Rajakavitha1]

Hi @biasedbit !!!
I tried the instructions that you detailed and yes, it does work indeed. I also checked: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/accessing/#loadbalancer-access.

However, the changes that I noticed in the step was that minikube tunnel does not prompt for any password. And curl "http://localhost:8080" does not work unless it is port forwarded.
pulumiminikube.txt
kubernetesservices.txt
testingthepulumistack.txt

A better approach to documentation update would be to remove the condition service logic isMinikube in all the code examples and mention about using minikube tunnel .
Also:
I noticed something else too. In the getting started there are no instructions to deploy an app. We are only providing instructions to check if the service is deployed and if we used YAML the isMinikube config need not be set. The deployment goes through. Here's the terminal output of the same.
yamltestwithoutisMinikube.txt

@ringods and @desteves please let me know your thought on this approach to documentation and I am more than happy to submit a PR with the changes.

[Rajakavitha1]

Just submitted a PR with changes for Python and YAML pulumi/pulumi-hugo#3521