How to use NodePort with kind?

in the kind config yaml

containerPort must be the same with the 'NodePort' in service config. in your case is 30000

tips: hostPort can be any port ,it does not need to be the same with containerPort

Actually doing what Arghya Sadhu suggested worked. Not sure why the answer got deleted.

apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
kind: Cluster
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  extraPortMappings:
  - containerPort: 30000
    hostPort: 30000
    listenAddress: "0.0.0.0"
    protocol: tcp
- role: worker

Kind cluster configuration needs to be like below

apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
kind: Cluster
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  extraPortMappings:
  - containerPort: 30000
    hostPort: 30000
    listenAddress: "0.0.0.0" # Optional, defaults to "0.0.0.0"
    protocol: tcp # Optional, defaults to tcp
- role: worker

This file is then passed to your creation command as kind create cluster --config=config.yaml (according to docs).

I will share my answer as i tried out this today by using multi node kind cluster and another important thing is that needs to take care about kubectl client and server versions. I believe this will help someone.

Step 1

kind-api-cluster.yml

kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  extraPortMappings:
  - containerPort: 30950
    hostPort: 30950
    listenAddress: "127.0.0.1"
    protocol: TCP
- role: worker
- role: worker

Step 2 Kubernetes service and deployment file. ( If you note here, the kind's control-plane hostPort and kubernetes service's nodePort should be the same )

api.yml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: api
  labels:
    app: api
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: api
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: api
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: api
          image: api
          imagePullPolicy: Never
          ports:
            - containerPort: 8080
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: api-svc
spec:
  selector:
    app: api
  type: NodePort
  ports:
    - name: http
      nodePort: 30950
      targetPort: 8080
      port: 8080

Additional Notes:-

kubectl version

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"20+", GitVersion:"v1.20.4-dirty", GitCommit:"e87da0bd6e03ec3fea7933c4b5263d151aafd07c", GitTreeState:"dirty", BuildDate:"2021-03-15T09:55:27Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.2", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"darwin/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"20", GitVersion:"v1.20.2", GitCommit:"faecb196815e248d3ecfb03c680a4507229c2a56", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-01-21T01:11:42Z", GoVersion:"go1.15.5", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

kind --version

kind version 0.10.0