We create pods where we run our workloads for a frontend application. We create a deployment to make sure the pods are highly available. To ensure application pods are accessible to the outside world or to client applications, we need to expose the application as a service on an endpoint even when the workload is split across multiple backends. The service then acts as a load balancer, receives the incoming requests, and redirects them to the backend pods. In this chapter, we’ll review the following four types of Kubernetes services: