Access a Kubernetes Service running locally in Docker For Desktop?

That service will be available in your browser at http://localhost:8037

Note that the port 8037 corresponds to the port property on the ServiceSpec object.

If you are unable to reach the service at that URL, then it could be one of several things, including but not limited to:

• There is another Service in your cluster that has claimed that port. Either delete the other Service, or change the port property to an unclaimed port.
• Your Pod is not running and ready. Check kubectl get pods.

For local development you might want to use the type NodePort for the service (see https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#nodeport). This binds the given nodePort, as the name says, to a port of your node (which should be localhost for docker-on-desktop).

Then the the service should be available ob http://localhost:31534.

Port forwarding:

kubectl port-forward <my-pod-name> 4000:8037

Your pod's internal port (8037) will be accessible on localhost:4000. Docs here.