<p>I have a service that directs all traffic to a UI-pod. I want to redirect traffic from my localhost:80 to that service. 
I have tried : </p>

<pre><code>kubectl port-forward my_service 6379:6379
</code></pre>

<p>This doesnt work because that service is actually supposed to be a pod. 
I have tried:</p>

<pre><code>kubectl proxy --port=8080 --www=./local/www/
</code></pre>

<p>which looks for a pod too. Any suggestions?</p>

<p>Unfortunately in kubernetes you can't port forward a service yet - <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/15180" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/15180</a></p>

<p>However, in minikube, you can use ssh port forwarding for the VM to achieve the same result</p>

<p><code>ssh -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa docker@$(minikube ip) -L 30000:localhost:30000
</code></p>
