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> coredns and kube-proxy provide service discovery

Is service discovery an anti-pattern? Is someone is already in your house, do you want to give the burglar directions to where the valuables are kept?

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Service Discovery isn’t about exposing a directory of services, but mapping a name to an endpoint.

If you have pods going up and down, you need some way of discovering which ones are currently up and healthy and can be used vs which ones are not. That information has to exist somewhere.

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