<p>Im trying to set up a simple k8s cluster on a bare metal server.</p>
<p>Im looking into ways to access the cluster.</p>
<p>Ive been looking though the docs and read through the bare metal considerations section.</p>
<p>so far i've found setting external IP's and nodePorts aren't recommended.
Ive heard metalLB should be used in production so i was about to go ahead with that.</p>
<p>Then i realised the ingress is already using a nodePort service and i can access that for development purposes.</p>
<p>Could i just use this in production too?</p>

lloyd noone
<p>Of course you can. If you do not need <strong>routing rules</strong> or anything beyond what kube-proxy can offer, you don't need ingress controller like MetalLB.</p>
