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 The minikube VM is exposed to the host system via a host-only IP address, that can be obtained with the `minikube ip` command.
 Any services of type `NodePort` can be accessed over that IP address, on the NodePort.
 
-To determine the NodePort for your service, you can use a `kubectl` command like this:
+To determine the NodePort for your service, you can use a `kubectl` command like this (note that `nodePort` begins with lowercase `n` in JSON output):
 
-`kubectl get service $SERVICE --output='jsonpath="{.spec.ports[0].NodePort}"'`
+`kubectl get service $SERVICE --output='jsonpath="{.spec.ports[0].nodePort}"'`
 
 We also have a shortcut for fetching the minikube IP and a service's `NodePort`: