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Basic service discovery

Basic service discovery - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Basic service discovery

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- [Instructor] As the number of microservices deployed to your system increases, there needs to be a way to track where each service is. In this section, we'll discuss why service discovery is important, along with the systems you'll need to implement to achieve service discovery, and take a look at DNS, a straightforward way to implement discovery of your services. Service discovery is important for several reasons. One, so that services can find and use each other. Two, so that each service can be monitored, and three, so it's easy for developers in your organization to know what APIs are already available to them. In order to achieve service discovery, a service registry must exist. A service registry is some sort of storage mechanism containing the network locations of the instances of a service. This can be as straightforward as DNS, or be implemented via a dynamic service registry, which we'll discuss in the next video. But first, let's talk about DNS. In the case of DNS…

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