How to Route to specific pod through Kubernetes Service (like a Gateway API)

Question

I am running Kubernetes on \"Docker Desktop\" in Windows.

I have a LoadBalancer Service for a deployment which has 3 replicas. I would like to access SPECIFIC pod th

Answer 1

You can use StatefulSets if you are not required to use deployment.

For replica 3, you will have 3 pods named

1. stream-deployment-0
2. stream-deployment-1
3. stream-deployment-2

You can access each pod as $(podname).$(service name).$(namespace).svc.cluster.local

For details, check this

You may also want to set up an ingress to point each pod from outside of the cluster.