This article is part of the Comprehensive Guide to Microservices Architecture in .NET Core, Cloud and Azure series.

Service Discovery in Kubernetes

How Kubernetes DNS Works

Kubernetes automatically creates DNS entries for services, enabling simple name-based discovery. A service named order-service in the production namespace becomes accessible at order-service.production.svc.cluster.local. For services within the same namespace, you can use the short name order-service.

Service Definition: