How to access pods without services in Kubernetes

Question

I was wondering how pods are accessed when no service is defined for that specific pod. If it\'s through the environment variables, how does the cluster retrieve these?

Answer 1

• If you define a service for your app , you can access it outside the cluster using that service

• Services are of several types , including nodePort , where you can access that port on any cluster node and you will have access to the service regardless of the actual location of the pod

• you can access the endpoints or actual pod ports inside the cluster as well , but not outside

• all of the above uses the kubernetes service discovery

• There are two type of service dicovery though
• Internal Service discovery
• External Service Discovery.