title: How to connect to minikube services from outside
body: <p>I am trying to switch my local dev environment to run in minikube. I have all the container images built and I have all the YAML configs and I have all the services I need running and I can access them using the URL returned from <code>minikube service web --url</code> (web is the name of my front facing nginx server). But there is one thing that I have not been able to figure out. The project I am working on requires smart external devices communicating with the backend. I have a few devices sitting on  my bench, connected to the local LAN, but I cannot figure out how to expose services running inside minikube to the outside, i.e. so a device can connect to a service using my laptop's external IP. Is there a standard way of doing this?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: I have attempted to configure an ingress for my service. Here is my ingress config.</p>
  
  <pre><code>apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
  kind: Ingress
  metadata:
    name: web
  spec:
    backend:
      serviceName: web
      servicePort: 80
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The web service is accessible via <code>minikube service web</code> command and is exposed as type NodePort. All I get is "default backend 404" when I try to access the ingress. On the other hand, even if it did work, I would still have a problem, since ingress is exposing the service on the VM internal subnet and is not accessible from outside of the host machine. I am starting to consider running a proxy or accelerator of some sort to forward things from the host to the minikube vm. Still need to have ingress running to have a persistent endpoint for the proxy.</p>