What exactly is a headless service, what does it do/accomplish, and what are some legitimate use cases for it?

Question

I\'ve read a couple of passages from some books written on Kubernetes as well as the page on headless services in the docs. But I\'m still unsure what it really actually doe

Answer 1

Simply put, a Headless service is the same as default ClusterIP service, but lacks load balancing or proxying. Allowing you to connect to a Pod directly.