Lesson 03 · 13 min
Service and Ingress: how traffic reaches a Pod
ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, ingress controller and DNS inside the cluster.
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A Pod has an IP, but it changes every time the Pod is recreated, and there are several copies. Calling Pods directly is awkward and unreliable. A Service gives a group of Pods a stable name and a stable virtual IP and spreads requests across the ready Pods. A Service finds its Pods with a label selector, just like a Deployment.
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