10: Service discovery deep dive
In this chapter, you’ll learn about service discovery, why it’s important, and how it’s implemented in Kubernetes. You’ll also learn some troubleshooting tips.
You’ll get the most from this chapter if you know how Kubernetes Services work. If you don’t already know this, you should read Chapter 7 first.
The chapter is split into the following sections:
- Setting the scene
- The Service registry
- Service registration
- Service discovery
- Service discovery and Namespaces
- Troubleshooting service discovery
Note: The word service has a lot of different meanings. We capitalize the first letter for clarity when referring to the Service resource in the Kubernetes API.
Setting the scene
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