The ClusterIP service
We're now going to discover another type of service called ClusterIP.
ClusterIP is, in fact, the simplest type of service Kubernetes provides. With a ClusterIP service, you can expose your Pod so that other Pods in Kubernetes can communicate with it via its IP address or DNS name.
Why do you need ClusterIP services?
The ClusterIP service type greatly resembles the NodePort service type, but they have one big difference: NodePort services are meant to expose Pods to the outside world, whereas ClusterIP services are meant to expose Pods to other Pods inside the Kubernetes cluster.
Indeed, ClusterIP services are the services that allow different Pods in the same cluster to communicate with each other through a static interface: the ClusterIP Service object itself.
ClusterIP answers the exact same need for static DNS name or IP address we had with the NodePort service: if a Pod fails, is recreated, deleted, relaunched, and so on, then Kubernetes...