There should be no issue using k8s for Fabric gossip, and there should be no reason you need to expose anything other than port 443 externally. Expose your endpoints as subdomains on 443 and map those subdomains to appropriate ports internally. K8s has all the tools required to setup a network in this manner.

Alex

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:55 AM Nye Liu <nye@...> wrote:

I had this issue as well with k8s.

k8s is a disaster for p2p protocols, it is a very bad match. Great for monolithic microservice stacks, not much else.

On 10/31/2019 7:20 AM, email4tong@... wrote:

Yacov,

  When get stuff running on k8s and behind load balancer or proxy, you do not get chance to use port 7051. As a matter of fact, on k8s in majority of cases your port wont be 7051, that does not mean other ports are not open. Just saying that we should not assume that it will be always port 7051.

On Thursday, October 31, 2019, 9:33:59 AM EDT, Yacov <yacovm@...> wrote:

If you have trouble opening ports between companies, you shouldn't use a Blockchain at all, since Blockchain is a decentralized peer to peer protocol.

All peer to peer communication works through the same port (7051 by default), it's not like you need to open extra ports.



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Date:        10/31/2019 03:27 PM
Subject:        [EXTERNAL] Re: [Hyperledger Fabric] Major security hole in Hyperledger Fabric - Private Data is not private #fabric #fabric-questions #fabric-dstorage #database #dstorage #dstorage-fabric #fabric-chaincode #ssl
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Hi Dave,  Alexandre,  Yacov, Ivan

I think private data’s p2p connection is a real problem (partially agree with Ivan).

In some commercial scenario, we need to open firewalls for every company connecting to each other, which is a disaster for project deployment.
 
And that is not the end of story. When a new company needs to join the existing fabric network, it needs to connect to each company. Again, we need to open firewalls, not only for the one newly joining, but also for those already joined. Hard to explain to everyone why a new company joining leads to such a tremendous configuration change. You don’t know how terrible it is you get challenged by IT departments of those companies ONE BY ONE, and you have no solution.
 
Do you have solution for such issue?
 
Thank you all