<p>I am new to Kubernetes and i have been browsing looking and reading why my external ip is not resolving.</p>

<p>I am running minikube on a ubuntu 16.04 distro.</p>

<p>In the services overview of the dashboard i have this </p>

<pre><code>    my-nginx | run: my-nginx | 10.0.0.11 | my-nginx:80 TCP my-nginx:32431 | TCP 192.168.42.71:80 
</code></pre>

<p>When i do an http get at <a href="http://192.168.42.165:32431/" rel="noreferrer">http://192.168.42.165:32431/</a> i get the nginx page.</p>

<p>The configuration of the service is as follows </p>

<pre><code>    # Please edit the object below. Lines beginning with a '#' will be ignored,
    # and an empty file will abort the edit. If an error occurs         while saving this file will be
    # reopened with the relevant failures.
    #
    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Service
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: 2016-09-23T12:11:13Z
      labels:
        run: my-nginx
      name: my-nginx
      namespace: default
      resourceVersion: "4220"
      selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/services/my-nginx
      uid: d24b617b-8186-11e6-a25b-9ed0bca2797a
    spec:
      clusterIP: 10.0.0.11
      deprecatedPublicIPs:
      - 192.168.42.71
      externalIPs:
      - 192.168.42.71
      ports:
      - nodePort: 32431
        port: 80
        protocol: TCP
        targetPort: 80
      selector:
        run: my-nginx
      sessionAffinity: None
      type: LoadBalancer
    status:
      loadBalancer: {}
</code></pre>

<p>These are parts of my ifconfog</p>

<pre><code>    virbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr fe:54:00:37:8f:41  
              inet addr:192.168.122.1  Bcast:192.168.122.255          Mask:255.255.255.0
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:4895 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:8804 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0         carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:303527 (303.5 KB)  TX bytes:12601315 (12.6         MB)

    virbr1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr fe:54:00:9a:39:74  
              inet addr:192.168.42.1  Bcast:192.168.42.255          Mask:255.255.255.0
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:7462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:12176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0         carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:3357881 (3.3 MB)  TX bytes:88555007 (88.5 MB)


    vnet0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr fe:54:00:37:8f:41  
              inet6 addr: fe80::fc54:ff:fe37:8f41/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:4895 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:21173 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:372057 (372.0 KB)  TX bytes:13248977 (13.2 MB)

    vnet1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr fe:54:00:9a:39:74  
              inet addr:192.168.23.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0          Mask:255.255.255.255
              inet6 addr: fe80::fc54:ff:fe9a:3974/64 Scope:Link
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:7462 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:81072 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0         carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:3462349 (3.4 MB)  TX bytes:92936270 (92.9 MB)
</code></pre>

<p>Does anyone have some pointers, because i am lost?</p>

<p>Minikube doesn't support LoadBalancer services, so the service will never get an external IP.</p>

<p>But you can access the service anyway with its external port.</p>

<p>You can get the IP and PORT by running:</p>

<pre><code>minikube service &lt;service_name&gt;
</code></pre>
