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Add IPv6 listener to nginx to fix Istio health check failures - #2
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Summary
Add
listen [::]:8086to the nginx config so it accepts connections on both IPv4 and IPv6.Problem
Pods in the
apollo-frontendnamespace are assigned IPv6 addresses (e.g.,2600:1f16:f2f:a006:2492::3). The Istio sidecar performs health checks against the pod's IP address, which means it probes nginx over IPv6. With onlylisten 8086(IPv4), nginx doesn't bind to the IPv6 address, and the sidecar getsconnection refused:This causes the pod to show
1/2 READYand eventually enterCrashLoopBackOff— the nginx container is healthy but the Istio sidecar reports the app as unreachable.This is the same issue affecting the old
apollo-frontend-deploymentpods in the namespace.Fix
Nginx will now accept connections on both IPv4 and IPv6, allowing the Istio sidecar health checks to succeed.