It is possible to set this up, but unfortunately this is a limitation of the current marketplace entry that it doesn't do this out of the box. For details on that see this: https://github.com/neo-technology/neo4j-google-k8s-marketplace/blob/master/user-guide/USER-GUIDE.md#...
To set this up, a way I would recommend is this:
- Use other kubernetes approaches to establish valid external DNS names for your pods.
- Configure your Neo4j pods to advertise those DNS names. You can find all of the helm charts and everything you need at the same github repo as the link above.
You can't use SSH tunnels directly because the issue with the setup is that when a pod starts, it only gets an internal kubernetes DNS address. Google's marketplace doesn't know how to configure externally valid DNS for all of these pods, because this depends on your domain name ownership and other issues.
The way bolt+routing works is that you connect to a single node, and it gives you a "routing table" (basically the same as you would get if you ran in cypher: CALL dbms.cluster.overview();). This routing table returns a list of the advertised addresses for all of the nodes. In a k8s environment, those are all internal private DNS names, and so external usage of bolt+routing fails because your external client can't resolve those DNS names.
The solution then is to give the pods valid DNS names if you want to do it from the outside. Because of the limitations in the google marketplace and the difference in various people's configurations, this wasn't something that could be set up from the outside by us in the marketplace entry without a lot of extra machinery.
Hope this helps.
