kubernetes - How to know a Pod's own IP address from inside a container in the Pod?

Question

Kubernetes assigns an IP address for each container, but how can I acquire the IP address from a container in the Pod? I couldn't find the way from documentations.

Edit: I'm going to run Aerospike cluster in Kubernetes. and the config files need its own IP address. And I'm attempting to use confd to set the hostname. I would use the environment variable if it was set.

Answer 1

The simplest answer is to ensure that your pod or replication controller yaml/json files add the pod IP as an environment variable by adding the config block defined below. (the block below additionally makes the name and namespace available to the pod)

env:
- name: MY_POD_NAME
  valueFrom:
    fieldRef:
      fieldPath: metadata.name
- name: MY_POD_NAMESPACE
  valueFrom:
    fieldRef:
      fieldPath: metadata.namespace
- name: MY_POD_IP
  valueFrom:
    fieldRef:
      fieldPath: status.podIP

Recreate the pod/rc and then try

echo $MY_POD_IP

also run env to see what else kubernetes provides you with.

Cheers