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10. Discovery and Load Balancing

Philippe Martin1  
(1)
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
 

When you deploy a Pod, it is not easily accessible. If you define a Pod with several containers, these containers will be available to communicate via the localhost interface, but containers of a Pod won’t be able to communicate with containers of another Pod without knowing the IP address of the other Pod.

But the Pod is volatile. We have seen that a Pod by itself is not usable because it can be evicted from a node at any time and won’t be recreated automatically. Controllers like ReplicaSet are necessary to guarantee ...

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