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Kubernetes for Developers
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Kubernetes for Developers

by Joseph Heck
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
374 pages
8h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Headless service

It is possible to create a service grouping that does not allocate an IP address or forward traffic, if there is a reason that you want to definitively control what specific pods you connect and communicate with. This kind of service is called a headless service. You can request this setup by explicitly setting ClusterIP to None within the service definition:

For example, a headless service might be:

kind: ServiceapiVersion: v1metadata:    name: flask-servicespec:  ClusterIP: None  selector:      app: flask

For these services, DNS entries will be created that point to the Pods backing the service, and that DNS will be automatically updated as Pods matching the selector come online (or disappear).

NOTE: Be aware that DNS caching could ...
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