Use Port Forwarding to Access Applications in a Cluster

If you need to connect directly to a tcp-port in a pod you can do this with port forwarding.

So for example to access the redis pod in the namespace redis you will use this on the client:

kubectl port-forward redis1-master-0 6379:6379 -n redis

"redis1-master" is the pod name.

You cann then access redis with a client to localhost:6379