I am having some trouble in exposing a simple nginx deployment on a locally running Kind cluster on a Macbook.
I have a simple nginx deployment and I have tried to use kubectl expose or create a service object manually in order to access port 80 and verify the nginx deployment is accessible from outside the cluster. I've tried a number of service types (ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer) but I just can't do it successfully. I'm fairly sure the service type I actually want is NodePort (it would LoadBalancer if I had my cluster in the cloud (AWS, GCP, etc)) and I'm pretty sure I am using the correct IP for the node (the internal IP of my only node).
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME
kind-control-plane Ready control-plane 2d4h v1.27.3 172.18.0.2 <none> Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 6.4.16-linuxkit containerd://1.7.1
I found this article and it says that the kubernetes network is not exposed to the Macbook host due to how Docker runs on MacOS. I've verified that my deployment works as I used a port forward to access the deployed container and can see the default "Welcome to nginx" page.
Is this article correct? And if so, how can I expose the deployment and verify it can be accessed externally?