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What is a headless service?

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A headless service is used to interface with service discovery mechanisms without being tied to a ClusterIP, therefore allowing you to directly reach pods without having to access them through a proxy. It is useful when neither load balancing nor a single Service IP is required. 

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Headless service is defined as a service that uses IP address, but instead of load balancing, it returns of associated pods.

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