Not seeing any aliens "namespace undefined" on Minikube

[brentrmck]

I have deployed kubeinvaders into the "kubeinvaders" namespace, and a few nginx pods in both "namespace1" and "namespace2".

I am running this locally on my mac, via Minikube. I had to change the driver in the Makefile to docker, virtualbox was throwing errors for my machine. I can access the front end of the app, by port forward to 8080 and visiting "http://localhost:8080" but when i go to "Enable Game Mode" I cannot see any aliens, nothing to shoot.

Terminal output from logs:
$kubectl logs kubeinvaders-69b9757c84-tgprt -n kubeinvaders -f

2025/07/01 21:00:13 [notice] 10#10: using the "epoll" event method
2025/07/01 21:00:13 [notice] 10#10: openresty/1.27.1.2
2025/07/01 21:00:13 [notice] 10#10: OS: Linux 6.10.14-linuxkit
2025/07/01 21:00:13 [notice] 10#10: getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE): 1048576:1048576
2025/07/01 21:00:13 [notice] 10#10: start worker processes
2025/07/01 21:00:13 [notice] 10#10: start worker process 15
2025/07/01 21:00:13 [notice] 10#10: start worker process 16
2025/07/01 21:02:47 [info] 15#15: *2 client 127.0.0.1 closed keepalive connection
2025/07/01 21:03:10 [info] 15#15: *4 client 127.0.0.1 closed keepalive connection
2025/07/01 21:03:10 [info] 16#16: *6 client 127.0.0.1 closed keepalive connection
2025/07/01 21:03:10 [info] 16#16: *3 client 127.0.0.1 closed keepalive connection
2025/07/01 21:03:10 [info] 15#15: *5 client 127.0.0.1 closed keepalive connection
2025/07/01 21:03:10 [info] 16#16: *1 client 127.0.0.1 closed keepalive connection

I am running this locally on my mac, via Minikube. I had to change the driver in the Makefile to docker, virtualbox was throwing errors for my machine. I can access the front end of the app, by port forward to 8080 and visiting "http://localhost:8080" but when i go to "Enable Game Mode" I cannot see any aliens, nothing to shoot.

Terminal output from curl:
$curl "http://localhost:8080/kube/pods?action=list&namespace=namespace1" -k

{"items":[{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-4wp6t","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-58mwv","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-5bmxn","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-5n8cn","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-6qhwz","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-ds7z4","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-f4qb8","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-fbqvn","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-fr2mz","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-kj4wv","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-l6klh","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-l8c9x","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-mv5fk","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-p2sr5","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-pf4br","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-qq9sn","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-tcdkc","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-wzpf8","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-zgwcx","status":"ready"},{"name":"nginx-deployment-94c45f98d-zw49k","status":"ready"}]}

Any other ideas to try?

[lucky-sideburn]

Dear @brentrmck

Thank you for using Kubeinvaders!

I haven’t tested it with Minikube before, but I’ll do my best to help you. First, could you please check your configuration and export it for me?

For example, if you visit https://kubeinvaders.platformengineering.it/, you’ll see a section like the one shown below, which should also be present in your instance:

Image

In your case, the most important settings are likely:

APPLICATION_URL — this should be http://localhost:8080

DISABLE_TLS — this should be set to false

Let me know what you find, and I’ll assist further!

Best regards,

[brentrmck]

I updated the kubeinvaders deployment to set APPLICATION_URL to http://localhost:8080 and that fixed it.

Many thanks!

[lucky-sideburn]

Hi @brentrmck

Thank you for using KubeInvaders :)

Happy Open Source!