Labels and Loose Coupling

Learn about loose coupling between Services and Pods via labels and label selectors.

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Directing traffic to Pods

Services use labels and selectors to know which Pods to send traffic to. This is the same technology that loosely couples Deployments to Pods.

The following figure shows a Service selecting on Pods with the project=tkb and zone=prod labels.

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