Discovering Services
In this lesson, we will go through the discovery process of Services.
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Discovering Services
Services can be discovered through two principal modes:
- Environment variables
- DNS
Every Pod gets environment variables for each of the active Services. They are provided in the same format as what Docker links expect, as well with the simpler Kubernetes-specific syntax.
Let’s take a look at the environment variables available in one of the Pods we’re running.
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