Service Registration
Explore how Kubernetes handles service registration automatically, assigning names and IPs to Services and registering them with the cluster DNS. Understand the role of the API server, cluster store, and kube-proxy in maintaining reliable routing and communication between applications in a Kubernetes cluster.
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The most important thing to know about service registration on Kubernetes is that it’s automatic! At a high level, we develop applications and put them behind Services for reliable names and IPs. Kubernetes automatically registers these Service names and IPs with the service registry. From now on, we’ll call the service registry the cluster DNS.
Service registration process
There are three steps in service registration: ...