Lab → scenario

Kubernetes manifest picks

Choose Deployment vs Service vs Ingress for a stateless HTTP API.

Requirements

Workload resource

Deployment with replicas: 3 Bare Pod — no controller DaemonSet on every node

In-cluster access

ClusterIP Service selecting app=api Ingress only — no Service hostPort on each Pod

External HTTPS hostname

Ingress with TLS and host api.example.com NodePort on random high port only ConfigMap with hostname string