Kubernetes uses DNS resolution to identify other services within the cluster. Inside the same namespace, you can lookup another service by its name. In another namespace, you can lookup the service’s name followed by a dot and then the other namespace.
…inutes to happen, which is not surprising given the number of resources that have to be brought up. On GCP, for example, this requires the system to create an external IP, a forwarding rule, a target proxy, a backend service, and possibly an instance group. Once the IP has been allocated you can connect to your service through it, assign it a domain name…
Like everything in kubernetes a service is just a resource, a record in a central database, that describes how to configure some bit of software to do something. In fact a service affects the configuration and behavior of several components in the cluster, but…