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Use a Service to Access an Application in a Cluster — Creating a service for an application running in two pods

Here is the configuration file for the application Deployment Run a Hello World application in your cluster: Create the application Deployment using the file above Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/hel

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Here is the configuration file for the application Deployment Run a Hello World application in your cluster: Create the application Deployment using the file above Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/service/access/hello-application.yaml ``` The preceding command creates a and an associated The ReplicaSet has two 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=NodePort --name=example-service ``` Display information about the Service Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl describe services example-service ``` The output is similar to this Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```none Name: example-service Namespace: default Labels: run=load-balancer-example Annotations: <none> Selector: run=load-balancer-example Type: NodePort IP: 10.32.0.16 Port: <unset> 8080/TCP TargetPort: 8080/TCP NodePort: <unset> 31496/TCP Endpoints: 10.200.1.4:8080,10.200.2.5:8080 Session Affinity: None Events: <none> ``` Make a note of the NodePort value for the Service. For example, in the preceding output, the NodePort value is 31496. List the pods that are running the Hello World application Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl get pods --selector="run=load-balancer-example" --output=wide ``` The output is similar to this … Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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