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Kubernetes Service vs Ingress vs LoadBalancer: what does each do?

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#kubernetes#networking#ingress#service#load-balancer
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A Service gives stable networking to pods (stable name/IP) and load-balances inside the cluster. A LoadBalancer Service typically provisions a cloud L4 load balancer to expose the Service externally. Ingress is usually L7 HTTP routing (host/path rules, TLS) in front of Services, managed by an Ingress Controller.

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