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Service

A Kubernetes Service gives clients a stable network endpoint for a changing group of Pods. It uses selectors and EndpointSlices to route traffic to matching backends.

Last updated

Since
v1.21 for stable EndpointSlices; v1.20 for stable appProtoco

Syntax

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: <name>
spec:
  selector: <label-selector>
  ports:
    - port: <service-port>
      targetPort: <pod-port>

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  • Pod
  • EndpointSlice
  • Ingress
  • Gateway API
  • ClusterIP
  • NodePort
  • LoadBalancer
  • ExternalName

Source: Service | Kubernetes. Checked 2026-11-03.