Agent to Collector with HTTP (k8s ingress)

[ebuildy]

We are using Jaeger "official" Helm chart to run jaeger on kubernetes.

Now we have a collector with HTTP API open with an ingress.

I would like to use this collector from an agent running on my laptop (for dev purposes), is it possible?

[ebuildy]

I was able to add an ingress for GRPC:

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/tls-acme: "true"
    cert-manager.io/common-name: jaeger-collector-grpc.dev-steam.XXXXX
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: "nginx"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/backend-protocol: "GRPC"
  name: djobi-metrics-jaeger-collector-grpc
  namespace: dev-steam
spec:
  rules:
  - host: jaeger-collector-grpc.dev-steam.XXXX
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: djobi-metrics-jaeger-collector
          servicePort: grpc
  tls:
  - secretName: djobi-metrics-jaeger-collector-grpc-ssl
    hosts:
      - jaeger-collector-grpc.dev-steam.XXXX

maybe we should add this ingress to the Helm as well?

[jpkrohling]

You may, but it's a really bad idea to expose your collector to the public internet without any kind of auth...

[ebuildy]

Our ingress endpoints are not public from the web.

[jpkrohling]

I would like to use this collector from an agent running on my laptop (for dev purposes), is it possible?

Yes, you can point the agent to the collector via one of its CLI flags. https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.21/cli/#jaeger-agent

[ebuildy]

You mean via HTTP ?

[jpkrohling]

This one here: --reporter.grpc.host-port