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Jenkins-X: How to link external service in preview environment

From preview environment I want to access a database located in staging environment (in namespace jx-staging).

I am trying to follow Service Linking from Jenkins-X documentation with no success. Documentation is not really clear where to put the service link definition.

I created a service file charts/preview/resources/mysql.yaml with following content, but the service link is not created. 

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: mysql
spec:
  type: ExternalName
  externalName: mysql.jx-staging.svc.cluster.local
  ports:
  - port: 3306

JX Environment:

jx version:
NAME               VERSION
jx                 1.3.688
jenkins x platform 0.0.3125
Kubernetes cluster v1.10.9-gke.5
kubectl            v1.10.7
helm client        v2.12.1+g02a47c7
helm server        v2.12.0+gd325d2a
git                git version 2.11.0
Operating System   Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch)

Where and how to define a service link?

GitHub issue: How to link external service in preview environment

Solution

  • Solution is to move mysql.yaml from resources to templates sub-folder:

    charts/preview/templates/mysql.yaml

    Issue was cause by a typo in Service Linking documentation which is now corrected.