Access Kafka installed on a minikube cluster on Windows 10 - windows

Question

I'm trying to install Kafka with Strimzy on a local munikube cluster running on Windows 10, to test the impact of different parameters (especially the TLS configuration). Before moving to TLS, i'd simply like to connect to my cluster :)
Here is my yaml configuration :
apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta1
kind: Kafka
metadata:
name: my-cluster
spec:
kafka:
version: 2.3.0
replicas: 1
listeners:
external:
type: nodeport
tls: false
config:
offsets.topic.replication.factor: 1
transaction.state.log.replication.factor: 1
transaction.state.log.min.isr: 1
log.message.format.version: "2.3"
storage:
type: persistent-claim
size: 1Gi
zookeeper:
replicas: 1
storage:
type: persistent-claim
size: 2Gi
deleteClaim: false
entityOperator:
topicOperator: {}
userOperator: {}
For the listener, I firstly started with plain: {} but this only gives me services of type ClusterIP, not accessible from outside minikube (i really need to connect from outside).
I then moved to a listener of kind external.
You can fin below the configuration of the cluster:
kubectl get all -n kafka
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
pod/my-cluster-entity-operator-9657c9d79-8hknc 3/3 Running 0 17m
pod/my-cluster-kafka-0 2/2 Running 0 18m
pod/my-cluster-zookeeper-0 2/2 Running 0 18m
pod/strimzi-cluster-operator-f77b7d544-hq5pq 1/1 Running 0 5h22m
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
service/my-cluster-kafka-0 NodePort 10.99.3.204 <none> 9094:30117/TCP 18m
service/my-cluster-kafka-bootstrap ClusterIP 10.106.176.111 <none> 9091/TCP 18m
service/my-cluster-kafka-brokers ClusterIP None <none> 9091/TCP 18m
service/my-cluster-kafka-external-bootstrap NodePort 10.109.235.156 <none> 9094:32372/TCP 18m
service/my-cluster-zookeeper-client ClusterIP 10.97.2.69 <none> 2181/TCP 18m
service/my-cluster-zookeeper-nodes ClusterIP None <none> 2181/TCP,2888/TCP,3888/TCP 18m
NAME READY UP-TO-DATE AVAILABLE AGE
deployment.apps/my-cluster-entity-operator 1/1 1 1 17m
deployment.apps/strimzi-cluster-operator 1/1 1 1 5h22m
The IP address of the minikube cluster is 192.168.49.2 (given by minikube ip)
For the while, is everything correct on my configuration ? I cannot connect on the cluster with a producer (i get a timeout error when i try to publish data).
I tried to connect to 192.168.49.2:32372 & 192.168.49.2:30117 and I always get the same timeout error. I also tryed to run
minikube service -n kafka my-cluster-kafka-external-bootstrap
and
minikube service -n kafka my-cluster-kafka-0
and i still get the same error.
What is wrong in what i'm trying to do?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Ok, I got the answser.
I changed the type of the service to LoadBalancer and started minikube tunnel
One other point, as I'm running this on windows, I noticed that if I run everything using powershell it works, if I used an other command line tool (like Moba) it does not work, I don't explain this.