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Examine a ClusterIP service

Examine a ClusterIP service - Kubernetes Tutorial

From the course: Kubernetes: Microservices

Examine a ClusterIP service

- [Narrator] So far in this course, you've learned about the history of application deployments, you've spun up a cluster locally on your computer, you've deployed some microservices, and you've learned about the different kinds of service types in Kubernetes. Now, it's finally time for you to get some hands-on experience with the magic of Kubernetes internal networking. And the way that we're going to do that is by making an HTTP request to a cluster IP service. Let's go. The goal of this video is that you are able to make an HTTP get request to the Learning Resources Service and see its JSON payload. Remember, cluster IP addresses can only be accessed from within a cluster. And I also want to remind you that the Learning Service container is listening on Port 3,000. So in order to make an HTTP request inside of our Kubernetes cluster, we're going to have to somehow have an HTTP request service running from within the cluster. And the way that we're going to do that is with a tool…

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