I'm using lxc/lxd to play with the kubenetes cluster.
Is there a way to expose a deployed service locally without using minikube, so that I could access it from the local machine? I can access it from any of the nodes in the cluster but not from outside.
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.