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Previous episode Kubernetes load balancer: the one public address your visitors use

What happens when a visitor opens your app on Kubernetes

Kubernetes networking: the whole trip from a phone to a pod

You tap a link on your phone. Your request goes through a load balancer, a node, a Gateway and a Service, and then it reaches a pod. Follow the whole trip there and back. Then see what happens when a node stops.

  1. 1 One tap of Miva's thumb, on a normal day, and her request starts its trip through everything you built. Here is the whole trip, from her phone down to one of your pods.Miva's phoneDNSload balancer31080proxyone of your pods

    One tap of Miva's thumb, on a normal day, and her request starts its trip through everything you built. Here is the whole trip, from her phone down to one of your pods.

  2. 2 Her phone asks DNS for menu.example and gets the public address. Her request leaves for that address, where the load balancer takes it in.Mivamenu.example?DNS203.0.113.10To: 203.0.113.10load balancer

    Her phone asks DNS for menu.example and gets the public address. Her request leaves for that address, where the load balancer takes it in.

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