Nodeport

Kubernetes networking abstractions from the inside of the cluster — why a Service object existing and traffic actually flowing are two different facts separated by controllers and a node datapath, what a StatefulSet fixes (ordinal names, PVC, DNS) and what it does not (Pod IP), why Endpoints became EndpointSlice and how to read ready·serving·terminating, port vs targetPort vs containerPort, what NodePort’s Cluster and Local policies trade, how to tell whether iptables, nftables or Cilium eBPF is carrying your Services, and why Headless and ExternalName are Services without a virtual IP.