📌 Kubernetes Services Explained: ClusterIP, NodePort & LoadBalancer | Learn K8s in 10 Days (Day 5) Welcome to Day 5 of the Learn Kubernetes in 10 Days series! Today we dive into one of the most important parts of Kubernetes networking: Services. Pods are ephemeral and constantly changing — which means you should never connect to a pod directly. Kubernetes Services solve this by giving your workloads a stable, reliable, load-balanced endpoint, whether inside the cluster or exposed to the outside world. If you're serious about learning Kubernetes or becoming a DevOps engineer, understanding Services is essential. 🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Video 1️⃣ Why Services Are Needed Pods die, restart, and get rescheduled Why direct pod-to-pod communication is unreliable How Services provide a consistent endpoint 2️⃣ How Services Work Frontend: stable IP, DNS name, and port Backend: one or more healthy pods selected via labels How labels & selectors provide loose coupling How Kubernetes uses EndpointSlices to discover ready pods 3️⃣ Service Types in Kubernetes ClusterIP Default internal service Used for communication within the pod network NodePort Exposes a port on every node Opens a static port in the range 30000–32767 Built on top of ClusterIP LoadBalancer Integrates with cloud providers Exposes your app externally via L4 load balancers Also built on top of ClusterIP + NodePort 4️⃣ Real YAML Manifests Sample Service manifests Sample Deployment with matching labels How Kubernetes stitches everything together This lesson makes Kubernetes networking finally click. 🎯 Who This Video Is For DevOps Engineers Cloud Engineers (AWS, Azure, GCP) Developers deploying microservices Anyone preparing for CKA / CKAD Anyone who wants a clear understanding of Kubernetes networking 📅 Watch the Full Series (Playlist) 👉 Learn Kubernetes in 10 Days – 2025 Edition: ⭐ If you found this helpful Like 👍 Subscribe 🔔 Share with another DevOps learner 🚀 🔗 Links Playlist: Previous: Kubernetes Deployments (Day 4):