• kubernetes services: NodePort type usage

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    kubernetes service NodePort

    To be able to expose a given Service externally, we can use NodePort as a quick-and-dirty way of achieving it. NodePort Services use a port on each Node to expose the Service outside of the cluster network

    02/03/2021

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  • minikube: Get the URL to use for a given NodePort

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    minikube NodePort URL service

    To avoid having to create an Ingress it is quite handy to use NodePort for testing purposes. But how do we get the URL we can use to connect to a NodePort on a minikube cluster? minikube uses it's own networking layer so it is not as obvious a looking for listening ports using netstat

    05/02/2021

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