How can I select the label of the Zilla pod? Making Zilla accessible outside of the Kubernetes (k8s) cluster using a service.

[MartinMohammed]

Suppose I want to use a Kubernetes (k8s) service to expose Zilla to the public network (outside of the k8s cluster). How can I select the label of the Zilla pod?

A quick and dirty solution I found involves using k9s, a tool to interact with the k8s cluster. I can watch the deployment YAML file for the Zilla application and then select those labels with the selector in the service:

However, is there a better solution?

[vordimous]

The app.kubernetes.io/* labels are added by the helm install and can be updated for each deployment.

app.kubernetes.io/name: {{ include "zilla.name" . }}
app.kubernetes.io/instance: {{ .Release.Name }}

The "zilla.name" comes from the Chart and can be overritten in the values.yaml nameOverride property.

The ".Release.Name" property is the name you used when deploying the zilla helm chart. to change that value you can install zilla and use a different deployment name helm install my-custom-name-for-zilla oci://ghcr.io/aklivity/charts/zilla.

They are currently the same because the default zilla name and release name are the same.

[vordimous]

Additionally you can specifcy custom labels and annotations for the zilla pods in the values.yaml:

podAnnotations: {}
podLabels: {}