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Services

Service​

Services are abstractions which define a set of Pods and a policy by which to access them. They can be seen as microservices handling traffic to particular endpoints which applications expose. The traffic may be relayed using a NodePort or LoadBalancer to balance traffic between different replicas.

  • Services connect Pods together. Ensures that Pods relying on other Pods can always communicate on the expected IP/hostname.
  • Exposes Pod externally.
  • Defines Pod access policy.