April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
14h 34m
English
Pods in Kubernetes are allocated a network-visible IP address (not private to the node). Pods can communicate directly without the aid of network address translation, tunnels, proxies, or any other obfuscating layer. Well-known port numbers can be used for a configuration-free communication scheme. The pod's internal IP address is the same as its external IP address that other pods see (within the cluster network; not exposed to the outside world). This means that standard naming and discovery mechanisms such as DNS work out of the box.
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