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Exposing your Pod to the outside world

Exposing your Pod to the outside world - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Exposing your Pod to the outside world

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- [Instructor] The last video showed how we make our pods available to other pods within the cluster, but we still can't talk to them. We can't point a browser of them from our laptop. And this is because they're running within the cluster, which is a separate machine. In our case, it's a VM inside our laptop for a production cluster that would be a machine off in the cloud or likely several of them. The effect is the same though. The pod is isolated and we can't talk to it. So we've seen how to make it easy for other pods inside the cluster to talk to a given pod. And when you have several microservices, that's the only access a lot of them will need only other things inside the cluster will ever want to talk to them. But for anything user-facing for our blog, for our website, our web store, that's just not going to cut it. If customers on their phones and their laptops can't reach these services, we're going to…

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