id: service
name: Service
full-link: /docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
tags:
- fundamental
- core-object
short-description: >
  An API object that describes how to access applications, such as a set of {% glossary_tooltip text="Pods" term_id="pod" %}, and can describe ports and load-balancers.
long-description: >
  The access point can be internal or external to the cluster.
