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. Also see:

Manifest Metadata - labels

.spec Elements

type

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

selector

The service will select the pods to be exposed based on the labels specified in this selector. Also see:

Service Concepts - Associating a Service with Pods

ports

The element contains an array of ports that will exposed by the service. A port is specified by the following elements:

port

The port exposed by the service externally. This is the port the service will be available on, and the value will be used by the external clients connecting to the service. Also see:

Service port

targetPort

The port exposed by the pods associated with the service. The service will forward requests over connections opened with this port as target.