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: Managing finite tasks within a continuous environment. 3. The Networking Maze The Networking Maze Networking 21
Networking 21. ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer — Service types. 22. Service — stable network endpoint for pods. 23. Ingress & Ingress Controller — HTTP routing into cluster. 24. NetworkPolicies — pod-level network control (ACLs). 25. CNI plugins — Container Network Interface implementations. 26. DNS (CoreDNS) — service name resolution. 27. Service Mesh (e.g., Istio) — advanced traffic, observability, security. Service — stable network endpoint for pods
: Prevents Pods from running on the same node (for high availability). HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaler) : Scales Pods based on CPU/RAM usage. VPA (Vertical Pod Autoscaler) : Automatically sets resource requests/limits. Cluster Autoscaler : Increases/decreases the number of nodes in the cluster. PriorityClass