Kubernetes provides a service resource to distribute traffic across one or more pods. I won’t go into detail on what a service is, since it’s covered in-depth elsewhere. For Internet-facing applications, this Service will typically be of type LoadBalancer. If you are running in the “cloud,” creating a service of type LoadBalancer will trigger cloud provider specific logic to provision an external load balancer (either private or public) with the target being your service.
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