Orchestration Core
Services & label selectors
Lesson 2 of 5
Services provide a stable address for a fluid set of Pods, finding their backends entirely through label selectors.
What you'll learn
- Know why Pods need a stable abstraction in front of them
- Distinguish ClusterIP, NodePort, and LoadBalancer service types
- Understand how label selectors — not names or IPs — bind a Service to its Pods
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