How to expose a headless service for a StatefulSet externally in Kubernetes

Question

Using kubernetes-kafka as a starting point with minikube.

This uses a StatefulSet and a headless service for service discovery within the cluster.

The goal i

Answer 1

I solved this problem by creating separate statefulset for each broker and separate service of type NodePort for each broker. Internal communication can happen on each individual service name. External communication can happen on NodePort address.