This section describes how to view gateway information.

Prerequisites

  • The KubeSphere Gateway extension must be installed and enabled on the KubeSphere platform.

  • You need to join a cluster and have the cluster-admin permission in the cluster. For more information, see Cluster Members and Cluster Roles.

Steps

  1. Log in to the KubeSphere web console with a user who has cluster-admin permissions and enter your cluster.

  2. Click Cluster Settings > Gateway Settings in the left navigation pane.

  3. On the Cluster Gateway tab, view the information of the cluster gateway.

    Parameter Description

    Type

    The type of the gateway, which can be cluster gateway, workspace gateway, or project gateway.

    Creator

    The user who enabled the gateway.

    Creation Time

    The time when the gateway was enabled.

    Access Mode

    The external access mode for the gateway service.

    • NodePort: The system maps a node’s port to the service port, allowing access to the service via the node’s IP address and the node port.

    • LoadBalancer: The system allocates an external IP address for the service based on a NodePort service and binds the external IP address to an external load balancer. The external load balancer listens on the node port corresponding to the service, enabling access to the service via the external IP address. To achieve this functionality, a LoadBalancer type service requires support from a load balancer plugin and the underlying infrastructure environment, and relevant annotations need to be set. For more information, please contact your infrastructure environment provider.

    Gateway Address

    The external access address of the gateway.

    • If the external access mode of the gateway is NodePort, the gateway address is the IP address of a cluster node. Clients can access the backend service of the Ingress through the IP address and port of any cluster node.

    • If the external access mode of the gateway is LoadBalancer, the gateway address is the address of the load balancer.

    Node Port

    The HTTP and HTTPS node ports for the gateway service. Displayed only when the gateway’s external access mode is NodePort.

    Replicas

    The number of replicas for the gateway workload.

    Actual Running Pod Replica Limits

    Limits the minimum and maximum number of actual running pod replicas to ensure gateway performance and prevent resource exhaustion.

    Tracing

    Indicates whether the tracing feature is enabled for the gateway.