I deployed datalab to my GKE cluster:
kubectl run datalab --image gcr.io/cloud-datalab/datalab:latest --port 8081
Then I tried forwarding (kubectl port-forward) a local port to port 8081 on the datalab pod, but requests are not reaching the pod.
What am I my missing ? Is it due to IP address binding issue ?
You likely need to try attaching to port 8080 instead of 8081, as that is the port the webserver inside the container runs against.
See also my answer here: https://github.com/googledatalab/datalab/issues/1633