Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Can’t handle the monthly payments to gcp only to get a raspberry pi level of compute.
I point my DNS at the VPS, then I use the Zerotier VPN to tunnel traffic to my home server (Zerotier is embarrassingly easy to set up - I struggled for a while with OpenVPN but gave up). I use iptables packet forwarding to route traffic on port 443 or 80 from the VPS over the VPN to my local server, which is running an Nginx instance to serve the traffic.
This works perfectly for me 99% of the time. Main pain points have been the unreliability of hosting a server locally where Internet can die and power drop off, and a small amount of sysadmining on the VPS, which is so tiny that I have to be mindful of disk space (e.g. removing old Linux upgrade images every so often, etc). All told though, it works surprisingly seamlessly, and there's a certain smugness to knowing traffic from my smart TV goes all the way round the world and back through a VPN just to talk to my server sitting one foot below the TV.
I have it easy for external access -> static IP and a Gigabit connection without NAT, so all I have to do is setup ports on my router.
For my services like databases and Redit, I expose them only on Cluster-IP, and them you use kubeDNS and get something like 'redis.default.svc.cluster.local'.
If I need to access them for development purposes, I use kubectl-proxy, but a VPN is also an option.
Edit: I think I misunderstood, but will leave this up anyway.