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It exposes high-numbered host ports and lacks proper load balancing.
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NodePort opens a port (30000–32767) on every node in the cluster and routes traffic to the Service. It's hard to manage at scale (all nodes expose the port, even if no relevant Pod runs there), not load-balanced at the TCP layer, and exposes internal ports publicly. In production, an Ingress Controller or LoadBalancer Service is preferred.
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