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DNS

Explore how Kubernetes DNS provides automatic service name resolution within a cluster, enabling pods to communicate with each other reliably using service names instead of IPs. Understand practical usage by accessing services from pods, improving application stability and simplifying service discovery.

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Kubernetes provides two different service discovery mechanisms: DNS and injected environment variables.

Introduction to DNS

Kubernetes provides an out-of-the boxIt’s actually provided by an add-on, but I have never seen an installation that doesn’t include it, so we can assume it will be available for us., a DNS service to resolve service names. Here’s how it works: If you create a service called service-a, ...