Services and DNS in Kubernetes

From the Kubernetes Essentials cheat sheet ยท Services and Networking ยท verified Aug 2026

Services and DNS

Provide stable discovery for selected Pods.

bash
kubectl expose deployment web --port=80 --target-port=8080
๐Ÿ“Œ Services select Pods by labels
๐Ÿ” ClusterIP is the default Service type
๐Ÿ’ก EndpointSlices show selected backends
โš ๏ธ A Service with no endpoints usually has a selector mismatch
servicednsnetworking

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