Services and discovery

Click RESOURCES > Services and discovery to display information about services and Ingress.

Services

The Services page provides information about services.

A service defines a set of pods and a means by which to access them, such as single stable IP address and corresponding DNS name (such as a web service or API server) that directs and load balances traffic to the set of pods that it covers.

Ingress

An Ingress is a collection of rules that allow inbound connections to reach the cluster services.

It can be configured, for example, to give services externally reachable URLs, load balance traffic, terminate SSL, or offer name based virtual hosting. Users request ingress by POSTing the Ingress resource to the API server. An Ingress controller is responsible for fulfilling the Ingress, usually with a load balancer, though it may also configure your edge router or additional frontends to help handle the traffic in an HA manner.