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Service — Endpoints (deprecated)

The EndpointSlice API is the evolution of the older Endpoints API.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). The EndpointSlice API is the evolution of the older Endpoints API. The deprecated Endpoints API has several problems relative to EndpointSlice It does not support dual-stack clusters. It does not contain information needed to support newer features, such as trafficDistribution. It will truncate the list of endpoints if it is too long to fit in a single object. Because of this, it is recommended that all clients use the EndpointSlice API rather than Endpoints. Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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