Thus far I've set up a kubernetes cluster that runs my NodeJS deployment. I am now ready to expose it to "the world" and after reading up on services to do this, I believe all of them require a Load Balancer. Usually these Load Balancers are created by a cloud provider that is hosting kubernetes. I came across several limitations with these, some are priced highly, some have limits on connections etc...

I am now trying to figure out how to avoid these Load Balancers and expose my kubernetes cluster, but in a performant, secure and manageable way. I've looked through documentation and there seem to be mentionings of things like NodePort and Ingress. As far as I understood NodePort only works for a single machine in the cluster? and Ingress still requires traffic to come from somewhere, usually a Load Balancer.

This is my current manifest, where should I go from here in terms of exposing it to the public, ideally with a method that allows SSL certs, rate limiting etc... usual stuff you'd need in production

development.yaml

---
# ClusterIP
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: development-actions-cip
spec:
  type: ClusterIP
  selector:
    app: development-actions
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: 4000
---
# Actions NodeJS server
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: development-actions
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: development-actions
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: development-actions
    spec:
      containers:
        - image: my-image/latest
          name: development-actions
          ports:
            - containerPort: 4000
              protocol: TCP