A public-health team notices that application clients lose connectivity after a Deployment recreates Pods, because clients were given Pod IPs. What should the administrator explain about Pod addressing?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Think of a Pod IP like a hotel room number — after checkout, the next guest gets a different room. Clients should call the front desk (a Service) for a stable number, not memorize the room.
Full Explanation
Kubernetes assigns Pod IPs from the cluster Pod CIDR when Pods are created; recreation, reschedule, or replacement yields a new IP. Hard-coding Pod IPs therefore breaks clients after normal Deployments churn. A Service provides a stable ClusterIP and DNS name whose Endpoints track ready Pods, which is the supported discovery path for in-cluster clients.