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<li>I have 5 microservices in 5 pods and have deployed each service using specific port using NODE PORT service.</li>
<li>I have a UI app as one service inside another pod which is also exposed using node port service.</li>
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<p>Since I can't use pod IP to access urls in UI app as pods live and die so deployed as nodeport service and can I access all 5 services inside UI app seamlessly using respective node port?</p>
<p>Please advise - is this approach going to be reliable?</p>

Nagappa L M
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<li>Yes, you can connect to those Node port services seamlessly.</li>
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<p>But remember, you may need higher network bandwidth card and connection (to master nodes) if you get too much traffic to these services.</p>
<p>Also if you have a few master nodes, you can try dedicated master node-ip and nodeport for a service.(If you have 5 master nodes, each service is accessed from one master node's IP etc. This is not mandatory, you can connect to each service using any <code>masterIP:nodeport</code>)</p>
<p>Highly recommend to use load-balancer service for this. If you have baremetal cluster try using MetalLB.</p>
<p>Edit : (after Nagappa LM`s comment)</p>
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<li>If its for QA, then no need to worry, but if they perform load test to all the services simultaneously could be a problematic.</li>
<li>Your code change means, only your k8 - deployment is changed, not Kubernetes service. k8 service is where you define <code>nodeport</code></li>
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