Kubernetes Service Manifest

External

• https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.16/#service-v1-core

Internal

• Service Concepts

Example

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: blue
  labels:
    size: large
spec:
  type: ClusterIP
  selector:
    function: front-end # Label selector, the service is looking for
                        # pods with the label "function=front-end"
  ports:
  - port: 80
    targetPort: 8080
    protocol: TP

.metadata Elements

labels

The labels declared here apply to the service instance itself, they have no relationship to the target pods' labels, which are declared in the spec selector.

.spec Elements

type

Optional element. If not specified, it is assumed to be "ClusterIP".