Kubernetes Services and Ingresses
It’s story time! Let’s simplify Kubernetes Services.
Imagine you have a group of friends who love to order food from your restaurant. Instead of delivering each order to their houses separately, you set up a central delivery point in their neighborhood. This delivery point (or hub) is your “service.”
In Kubernetes, a Service is like that central hub. It’s a way for the different parts of your application (such as your website, database, or other things) to talk to each other, even if they’re in separate containers or machines. It gives them easy-to-remember addresses to find each other without getting lost.
The Service resource helps expose Kubernetes workloads to the internal or external world. As we know, pods are ephemeral resources—they can come and go. Every pod is allocated a unique IP address and hostname, but once a pod is gone, the pod’s IP address and hostname change. Consider...
