> Nobody uses NodePort to expose external services directly, and I think you know that I do. It provides a convenient way to integrate our non-k8s load balance

> Nobody uses NodePort to expose external services directly, and I think you know that I do. It provides a convenient way to integrate our non-k8s load balancers (TCP haproxy tier with a lot of customization) with services on kube. This is good for reusability and predictability while we slowly migrate services from our prior deployment targets to k8s. I get the impression that this is not uncommon.