How to Route to specific pod through Kubernetes Service (like a Gateway API)

Question

I am running Kubernetes on \"Docker Desktop\" in Windows.

I have a LoadBalancer Service for a deployment which has 3 replicas. I would like to access SPECIFIC pod th

Answer 1

IMO, the only way to achieve this will be:

1. Instead of using a deployment with 3 replicas, use 3 deployments with 1 replicas each (or just create pods only); deployment1 -> pod1, deployment2 -> pod2, deployment3 -> pod3
2. Expose all the deployments on a separate service, service1 -> deployment1, service2 -> deployment2, service3 -> deployment3
3. Create an ingress resource and route to each pod using the service for each deployment. For example:
   • ingress-url/service1
   • ingress-url/service2
   • ingress-url/service3