great question! kubernetes pretty much mandates either an LB because it is offloading the ingress job to a machine which can talk to the outside world and the

great question! kubernetes pretty much mandates either an LB because it is offloading the ingress job to a machine which can talk to the outside world and the VPC simultaneously. Otherwise you either get into complex hostport/nodeport/hostnetwork semantics... or use an ingress. In the k8s world, there is not many simpler alternatives.