I have a simple single-pod postgresql deployment running on AWS EKS (code here). I have exposed the pod using a load balancer.
kubectl get services/postgres-lb -o yaml
This yields the following:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
annotations:
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-connection-draining-enabled: "false"
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type: nlb
creationTimestamp: 2019-04-23T02:36:54Z
labels:
app: postgres
name: postgres-lb
namespace: default
resourceVersion: "1522157"
selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/default/services/postgres-lb
uid: <HASHREMOVED?
spec:
clusterIP: 10.100.94.170
externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
ports:
- nodePort: 32331
port: 5434
protocol: TCP
targetPort: 5432
selector:
app: postgres
sessionAffinity: None
type: LoadBalancer
status:
loadBalancer:
ingress:
- hostname: ...aaadz-example.elb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
This works and I can access the pod as expected. However, the connection to postgresql seems to drop about every minute or so if not active. I am pretty sure that at least some AWS load balancers behave this way to "drain connections"; hence the annotation above to NOT drain connections. However, I still see the same behavior of dropping connections if idle.
What is the best practice on AWS EKS for hosting a database, for example, and then exposing its single port to the internet? Web searches have turned up many variations, but all seem either overly complicated or not directly applicable. I have used GCE and found it to be much more straightforward with respect to network and exposing ports, so I feel like I am missing something obvious on AWS.
Try setting service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-connection-idle-timeout
annotation to some larger value (by default it is 60 seconds in AWS).
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