What is expected with enable host-network-access ?

[matgeb83]

when we enable host-network-access, does the host get TCP/IP connections to the CRC containers? or it is just the other way round only? how would services that i run on the host machine get the ability to connect to the crc containers?

[praveenkumar]

@matgeb83 Can you please explain a bit more with all the steps, like what you want to try, what kind of service ..etc.?

[matgeb83]

@praveenkumar I have containers that are running in CRC and on the CRC host I got an application running trying to create TCP/IP connections to the pod but the Pod is not reachable from the host. With the host-network-access enabled at the time of CRC start, it looks like the pod can reach or have a route to the host IP, but the host cannot reach the pod and thought enabling the host-network-access would provide TCP connections on both directions.

[cfergeau]

host-network-access is indeed about pod -> host network connections. For the other way around, oc port-forward may be an option?

[matgeb83]

oc port-forward worked but i was looking for more stable way of doing it and i did it with keepalived-oprator