Ingress & Load Balancing

Expose services using type=LoadBalancer or an Ingress controller.

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Service (LoadBalancer)

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: web
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
  - port: 80
    targetPort: 8080
  selector:
    app: web

• Allocates an external IP on the LB

• Health checks map to backend pod endpoints

Ingress (HTTP/S)

• Use a controller (e.g., Nginx/HA proxy class)

• TLS via secrets or cert manager

• Supports host/path routing, canaries via annotations