Kubernetes 101 : Using services to access "non-containerized" applications

Services are the entry point to the pods. All requests go through a service before getting to the pods.

For a regular application - non-containerized - with no labels, we could also use a service without using labels or label selectors.

Below is our service - loadBalancer - accessible on port "80":

Below is the endpoint of the above loadBalancer service.

The endpoint represents our application that is accessible on port "80":

The service points to our application's IP address "ip-address-application".

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