Kubernetes is a powerful tool. It can help you manage complex applications and provide you with the ability to easily automate tasks involved in managing them. In this course, we will start exploring Kubernetes from a beginner's standpoint. We will discuss what Kubernetes is and what it does, and we will work with some of the basic functionality of Kubernetes hands-on. We will build a simple Kubernetes cluster. We will also deploy a sample microservice application to the cluster in order to explore how Kubernetes can help easily manage such applications.

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

# Summary

That was it. We went through the most important aspects of Services. There are a few other cases we did not yet explore, but the current knowledge should be more than enough to get you going.

Services are indispensable objects without which communication between Pods would be hard and volatile. They provide static addresses through which we can access them not only from other Pods but also from outside the cluster. This ability to have fixed entry points is crucial as it provides stability to otherwise dynamic elements of the cluster. Pods come and go, Services stay.

We are one crucial topic away from having a fully functional, yet still simple, strategy for deployment and management of our applications. We are yet to explore how to deploy and update our services without downtime.

# Destroying Everything
We have exhausted this topic and the time has come to destroy everything we did so far.

This lesson summarizes what we have learned so far and what we are going to learn next.

What's Next?

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