Creating Kubernetes services

This post is the 5th in our Kubernetes training series, providing DevOps engineers with an introduction to Docker, Kubernetes, and Octopus.

This video demonstrates how to expose pods to network traffic via a service.

You can work through the series using the links below.

• Getting started with Docker
• Installing a development Kubernetes cluster
• Creating Docker containers
• Creating Kubernetes resources
• Creating Kubernetes services
• Deploying to Kubernetes with Octopus
• Multi-environment deployments
• Installing a dashboard
• Observing deployment strategies
• Blue/green deployment strategy

Resources

• Octopus trial
• kind load balancer

Sample Service YAML

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: webapp
spec:
  selector:
    app: webapp
  type: LoadBalancer
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: 80

Learn more

If you're looking to build and deploy containerized applications to AWS platforms such as EKS and ECS, the Octopus Workflow Builder populates a GitHub repository with a sample application built with GitHub Actions workflows and configures a hosted Octopus instance with sample deployment projects demonstrating best practices such as vulnerability scanning and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Happy deployments!