What is an 'endpoint' in Kubernetes?

Question

I am new to Kubernetes and started reading through the documentation. There often the term \'endpoint\' is used but the documentation lacks an explicit definition.

What

Answer 1

In k8s, Endpoints is consisted of a distributed API like "[IP]:[Port]" and other things. However,in SOAP,Endpoint is a distributed API like URL.

from Google Cloud:

Endpoints is a distributed API management system. It provides an API console, hosting, logging, monitoring, and other features to help you create, share, maintain, and secure your APIs.