Containers must find the current healthy payments endpoint without hard-coded IPs that change on every deploy. What capability should the platform provide?
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Short Explanation
Service discovery is the receptionist who always knows which desk payments sits at today. Hard-coded IPs go stale the moment pods move. Ask the platform, not yesterday's sticky note.
Full Explanation
Service discovery resolves logical service names to current healthy instance endpoints as containers are scheduled and replaced. Static IP embeds and manual tracking break under frequent deploys. Combined with health awareness, discovery prevents clients from depending on ephemeral addresses that change each release.