K8s Bootcamp Day 7 - Services & Ingress Networking: Part I

Erandi Ganepola
7 min readApr 11, 2024

K8s Bootcamp: Forge Your Superpower with Hands-on Exercises from Novice to Advanced Deployments

Hello there!

Welcome to the 7th article of the K8s Bootcamp series. If you are new here, get a quick start to this article series with my first article on K8s Essentials: Pods, Deployments, and Your Superpower.

This K8s Bootcamp will discuss novice to advanced K8s concepts and hands-on exercises. Also, this article series will benefit you in achieving your CKAD certification.

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Understanding services and ingress is crucial for exposing your applications running within the cluster to external traffic and managing them in a K8s environment. This is a wide topic to discuss. Therefore we will continue this discussion in two parts. This is part I of that. In this article, we will discuss different service types and will go into detail on NodePort and ClusterIP service types. Also, we will go through an introduction to ingress networking.

So let’s get started!

Services and Networking

Services act as an abstraction layer for a set of pods that provide a particular functionality and define how to access this group of pods…

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Erandi Ganepola

Solutions Architecture | Thinker | @WSO2 LLC for North America