Exposing kubernetes service locally (without minikube)

kubernetes lxc kubectl lxd

Do you want to acccess the pod being served by the service? if yes, you can use kubectl port-forward to connect to your pod and access it locally

Here is an example:

If you have a service which forwards all the requests to a pod ( nginx ) at port number 80 you can configure it to your local port as follows

kubectl port-forward -n default nginx-5767f4d585-hgtfj 8081:80

Here is the syntax of the same

kubectl port-forward -n NAMESPACE ${POD} local-port:pod-port

If you want to connect to your service directly, you need to do it via kubectl proxy

Here is a reference

Hope it helps.

CodeHunter