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title: "How-to-Kube: Services"
description: Site Reliability Engineer, Ivan Fetch, explains how to use services to expose pods and help applications communicate within Kubernetes.
---

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# [How-to-Kube: Services](https://www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-to-kube-services)

 Written by [Ivan Fetch](https://www.fairwinds.com/blog/author/ivan-fetch) | Aug 22, 2019 7:01:00 PM

Site Reliability Engineer, Ivan Fetch, explains how to use services to expose pods and help applications communicate within Kubernetes. He'll describe three types of services, and demonstrate a LoadBalancer service targeting multiple pods.

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