Nope, a Service is fundamentally a network construct. If you don't want to offer a network interface to your app, and you don't need any sort of collection semantics (e.g. DNS), then a Service is not warranted.
On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 5:35 AM, Mario Rodriguez <rvill...@gmail.com> wrote: > good question, I thought you always needed a Service when running an app in > k8s. > > On Monday, January 1, 2018 at 10:51:48 PM UTC-6, Tim Hockin wrote: >> >> Why do you need a Service at all? >> >> On Jan 1, 2018 8:43 PM, "Mario Rodriguez" <rvil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I'm in the middle of creating an K8s app that doesn't expose any HTTP >>> endpoints, is just a background app that pulls messages from a message bus >>> and takes some action based on the incoming message. No other apps will >>> interact directly with this background app, only thru posting messages into >>> the message bus. >>> >>> Scaling is a requirement and most likely will always need to run more >>> than one replica. >>> >>> >>> What is the recommended Service type in Kubernetes to handle this type of >>> workload ? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Kubernetes user discussion and Q&A" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to kubernetes-use...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to kubernet...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/kubernetes-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Kubernetes user discussion and Q&A" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to kubernetes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to kubernetes-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/kubernetes-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Kubernetes user discussion and Q&A" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to kubernetes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to kubernetes-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/kubernetes-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
