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Previous episode NodePort: how a request from outside gets into a Kubernetes node

What happens when a visitor opens your app on Kubernetes

Kubernetes load balancer: the one public address your visitors use

Kubernetes nodes come and go, and their addresses change with them. Yet a website on Kubernetes gives the world one public address, and it never changes. Who owns that address?

  1. 1 Miva, in the street, is on the internet, and from there no road leads to the 4 doors.MivaTo: node-1, port 31080?your clusternode-131080node-231080node-331080node-431080

    Miva, in the street, is on the internet, and from there no road leads to the 4 doors.

  2. 2 She should not have to pick a node either, since any node can stop. Her phone needs one address that works from the internet and always leads to a node that runs, and your cluster has none to give.MivaWhat do Iwrite here?To:

    She should not have to pick a node either, since any node can stop. Her phone needs one address that works from the internet and always leads to a node that runs, and your cluster has none to give.

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