Kubernetes Port Forwarding with kubefwd on Apple M1

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kubefwd is a command line tool for Kubernetes Services and allows you to access any service from your local workstation in the same namespace on cluster. kubefwd temporally adds domain records to our /etc/hosts file with the service names it forwards.

Here is explaining the workflow from official GitHub repository:

https://github.com/txn2/kubefwd

and Screencast (it’s also from GitHub repository)

https://github.com/txn2/kubefwd

Installation with homebrew

  1. Requirement
    1. kubectl kubefwd assumes you have kubectl installed and configured with cluster access.

You can install kubefwd directly from txn2/tap.

brew install txn2/tap/kubefwd

To upgrade:

brew upgrade kubefwd

Testing

Create and run forwarding

Open Gitea-Service and install it. After installation i have a new repo created and my ssh key in to the my gitea profile added.

Cloning, Pushing…

Gitea Dashboard