Cannot use curl to access to Kong for Kubernetes

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Hi, I am new to Kong. And I had set up Kong for Kubernetes following the steps from Install Kong for Kubernetes - v2.0.x.

I think everything is fine, I use

curl -i $PROXY_IP

It prints:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:43:29 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 48
X-Kong-Response-Latency: 0
Server: kong/2.0.4

{"message":"no Route matched with those values"}

I create a pod in namespace kong and execute curl -i 172.18.118.111:8100, it prints:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:57:06 GMT
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Server: kong/2.0.4
Content-Length: 23
X-Kong-Admin-Latency: 0

{"message":"Not found"}

curl -i 172.18.118.111:8100/status will return status data successfully as well.

172.18.118.111 is the IP of the pod where Kong running.

So I expect I can use curl to configure Kong, I use curl -i -X GET http://172.18.118.111:8444:
But it prints:
curl: (7) Failed to connect to 172.18.118.111 port 8444: Connection refused

Here is the fractions of the yaml I use:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  annotations:
    # I add annotations here to use the alicloud loadbalancer
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/alicloud-loadbalancer-id: ********** 
    service.beta.kubernetes.io/alicloud-loadbalancer-force-override-listeners: "true"
  name: kong-proxy
  namespace: kong
....

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  labels:
    app: ingress-kong
  name: ingress-kong
  namespace: kong
 ........
    spec:
      containers:
      - env:
        - name: KONG_PROXY_LISTEN
          value: 0.0.0.0:8000, 0.0.0.0:8443 ssl http2
        - name: KONG_ADMIN_LISTEN                          # Turn off ssl here
          value: 127.0.0.1:8444
      ........
      - env:
      - name: CONTROLLER_KONG_ADMIN_URL
      # value: https://127.0.0.1:8444
        value: http://127.0.0.1:8444                             # use http instead of https
      - name: CONTROLLER_KONG_ADMIN_TLS_SKIP_VERIFY
        value: "true"
      - name: CONTROLLER_PUBLISH_SERVICE
        value: kong/kong-proxy

How can I access to Kong? I am frustrated, have no idea what should I do now. I want to access to Kong and go with the Getting Stated Guide to learn Kong. Any help would be appreciated, Thinks.

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Under normal conditions, you should not need to access Kong’s Admin API if you are using Ingress Controller.
If you do want to do it, I suggest you use kubectl port-forward to achieve it:

kubectl port-forward -n kong <pod-name> 8444:8444