<p>I have been playing with Digital Ocean's new managed Kubernetes service. I have created a new cluster using Digital Ocean's dashboard and, seemingly, successfully deployed my yaml file (attached). </p>

<p>running in context <code>kubectl get services</code></p>

<p><code>NAME            TYPE        CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)          AGE
api-svc          NodePort   XX.XXX.XXX.XXX   &lt;none&gt;        8080:30000/TCP   2h
kubernetes       ClusterIP  XX.XXX.X.X       &lt;none&gt;        443/TCP          2h</code></p>

<p>My question is, <strong>how do I go exposing my service without a load balancer?</strong></p>

<p>I have been able to do this locally using minikube. To get the cluster IP I run <code>minikube ip</code> and use port number <code>30000</code>, as specified in my nodePort config, to reach the <code>api-svc</code> service. </p>

<p>From what I understand, Digital Ocean's managed service abstracts the master node away. So where would I find the public IP address to access my cluster?</p>

<p>Thank you in advance!</p>

<p><strong>my yaml file for reference</strong></p>

<pre><code>apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: regcred
data:
  .dockerconfigjson: &lt;my base 64 key&gt;
type: kubernetes.io/dockerconfigjson
---
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: api-deployment
  labels:
    app: api-deployment
spec:
  replicas: 1
  strategy: {}
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: api
 spec:
   containers:
   - name: api
     image: &lt;my-dockerhub-user&gt;/api:latest
     ports:
         - containerPort: 8080
   imagePullSecrets:
   - name: regcred
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: api-svc
spec:
  type: NodePort
  ports:
  - port: 8080
    targetPort: 8080
    nodePort: 30000
    protocol: TCP
  selector:
    app: api
  type: NodePort
</code></pre>

<p>You can hit any of your worker nodes' ip.  Example <a href="http://worker-node-ip:30000/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://worker-node-ip:30000/</a>. You can get the worker nodes ip from the digitalocean dashboard or use doctl cli.</p>
