Getting Traffic In (Services & Ingress)

Closes the Kubernetes arc, and folds the whole networking track into one line. This lesson is the last hop: how a stranger on the internet, typing a hostname, ends up inside one particular pod.

Before you start. The Harbor Master (pods, deployments, services) gave you the Service: a stable name inside the cluster that always points at whichever pods are alive right now, no matter how often they’re replaced. This lesson answers the next question - now that the cluster has a name for “the app,” how does anyone standing outside the cluster dial it? If TLS and certificates are new, The whisper code (how a call goes private) in Networking shows them in one read.