EndpointSlices

EndpointSlices are an API resource that appears as a scalable and more manageable solution to network endpoints within a Kubernetes cluster. They allow for distributing network endpoints across multiple resources with a limit of 100 endpoints per EndpointSlice.

An EndpointSlice contains references to a set of endpoints, and the control plane takes care of creating EndpointSlices for any Service that has a selector specified. These EndpointSlices include references to all the pods that match the Service selector.

Like Services, the name of a EndpointSlice object must be a valid DNS subdomain name.

In this example, here’s a sample EndpointSlice resource for the example Kubernetes Service:

CODE

apiVersion: discovery.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: EndpointSlice
metadata:
  name: konvoy-endpoint-slice
  namespace: default
  labels:
    kubernetes.io/service-name: my-konvoy-service
addressType: IPv4
ports:
- name: http
  protocol: TCP
  port: 80
endpoints:
- addresses:
  - "192.168.126.168"
  conditions:
    ready: true
  hostname: ip-10-0-135-39.us-west-2.compute.internal
  topology:
    kubernetes.io/hostname: ip-10-0-135-39.us-west-2.compute.internal
    topology.kubernetes.io/zone: us-west2-b