Services and Endpoints

To view the Kubernetes service and networking resources, click on the Resources tab. Drill down to the Service and Networking section and you can view several the Kubernetes API resource types that are part of service and networking. This lab exercise details ways to expose an application running on a set of Pods as Service, Endpoints and Ingresses.

Service resource view displays all the services that expose applications running on set of pods in a cluster.

If you select the service cart the view displayed will have details about the service in Info section including selector(The set of pods targeted by a service is usually determined by a selector), the protocol and port it is running on and any labels and annotations. Pods expose themselves through endpoints to a service. An endpoint is an resource that gets an IP address and port of pods assigned dynamically to it. An endpoint is reference by a Kubernetes service.

For this sample application, click on Endpoints and explore the details of the IP address and port associated with the endpoint along with Info, Labels and Annotations sections.