Ports and Services

PCF uses different ports for communication purposes. The following table describes the default ports and the associated services.

Ports and Services

Port

Service

Usage

22

SSH

SMI uses this port to communicate with the virtual machines.

80

HTTP

SMI uses this port for providing Web access to CLI, Documentation, and TAC.

443

SSL/HTTP

SMI uses this port for providing Web access to CLI, Documentation, and TAC.

2024

SSH

SMI accesses the ConfdD CLI through this port.

3868

TCP

PCF uses this port as the default Diameter Endpoint on a public port.

6443

HTTP

SMI uses this port to communicate with the Kubernetes API server.

8080

HTTP

PCF uses this port to communicate with the Keep Alive API Interface on a public network.

9082

HTTP

PCF uses this port to access the SBI Interface on a public network.

The Keepalive monitors the health of the container on this port. If the port is not accessible, then the kubectl restarts the container to restore the service.

9299

HTTP

SMI uses this port to communicate with the Prometheus Service.

9885

TCP

Default port that operates as the PCF Service gRPC endpoint on a private network.

10250

SSL/HTTP

SMI uses this port to communicate with Kubelet.

10256

HTTP

SMI uses this port to interact with the Kube proxy.