Kubernetes Services A Kubernetes Service object is an abstraction that provides network access to a dynamic set of Pod replicas. Rather than access Pods directly via their IPs, you can use a Service to proxy requests and deal with service discovery and load balancing. A Service usually uses a selector to decide which Pods will receive traffic. As Pods are dynamically added and removed, the Service will maintain a list of active Pods that are eligible to receive traffic. Defining a Service Below is a sample Service definition. apiVersion: v1 kind: Service metadata: name: my-service spec: type: ClusterIP selector: app: nginx ports: - protocol: TCP [...]