Chapter 5: Services — Exposing Your Applications
⏱️ Total chapter time: ~50 min (25 min reading + 25 min lab)
After this chapter, you will be able to: Connect pods using ClusterIP, expose applications externally with NodePort and LoadBalancer, use DNS to discover services, and debug connectivity failures.
What’s Inside
| Section | Topic | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | ClusterIP — Internal Communication | ~6 min |
| 5.2 | NodePort — Exposing to the Outside | ~5 min |
| 5.3 | LoadBalancer — Cloud-Native Exposure | ~5 min |
| 5.4 | Headless Services and DNS | ~5 min |
| 5.5 | 🔬 Lab: Service Discovery and Connectivity Debugging | ~25 min |
Prerequisites
- Completed Chapter 4 (comfortable with Deployments)
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