Docker and Kubernetes for Java Developers

kube-dns

Kubernetes offers a DNS cluster add-on, started automatically each time the cluster is started up. The DNS service runs as a cluster service itself--its SkyDNS--a distributed service for announcement and discovery of services built on top of etcd (you will get to know what etcd is later in this chapter). It utilizes DNS queries to discover available services. It supports forward lookups (A records), service lookups (SRV records), and reverse IP address lookups (PTR records). Actually, the service is the only type of object to which Kubernetes assigns DNS names; Kubernetes generates an internal DNS entry that resolves to a service's IP address. Services are assigned a DNS A record for a name in the form service-name.namespace-name.svc.cluster.local ...