# Exposing an External IP Address to Access an Application in a Cluster — Creating a service for an application running in five pods

> Run a Hello World application in your cluster Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/load-balancer-example.yaml ``` The preceding command creates a and an associated The ReplicaSet has five each of which runs the

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Run a Hello World application in your cluster

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/load-balancer-example.yaml
```

The preceding command creates a and an associated The ReplicaSet has five each of which runs the Hello World application.

Display information about the Deployment

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl get deployments hello-world
   kubectl describe deployments hello-world
```

Display information about your ReplicaSet objects

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl get replicasets
   kubectl describe replicasets
```

Create a Service object that exposes the deployment

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl expose deployment hello-world --type=LoadBalancer --name=my-service
```

Display information about the Service

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl get services my-service
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   NAME         TYPE           CLUSTER-IP     EXTERNAL-IP      PORT(S)    AGE
   my-service   LoadBalancer   10.3.245.137   104.198.205.71   8080/TCP   54s
```

The type=LoadBalancer service is backed by external cloud providers, which is not covered in this example. Please refer to setting type: LoadBalancer for your Service for the details.

If the external IP address is shown as \, wait for a minute and enter the same command again.

Display detailed information about the Service

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   kubectl describe services my-service
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
   Name:           my-service
   Namespace:      default
   Labels:         app.kubernetes.io/name=load-balancer-example
   Annotations:    &lt;none&gt;
   Selector:       app.kubernetes.io/name=load-balancer-example
   Type:           LoadBalancer
   IP:             10.3.245.137
   LoadBalancer Ingress:   104.198.205.71
   Port:           &lt;unset&gt; 8080/TCP
   NodePort:       &lt;unset&gt; 32377/TCP
   Endpoints:      10.0.0.6:8080,10.0.1.6:8080,10.0.1.7:8080 + 2 more...
   Session Affinity:   None
   Events:         &lt;none&gt;
``` …

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