Cluster IP : exposes service on cluster internal IP Nodepost : Exposes service on Node IP static port. It routes to an automatically created cluster IP svc, and makes svc available outside the cluster. LoadBalacer: exposes service by an externally created BB of your cloud provider. ( Headless service : used when sometimes we dont need loadbalancing or service IP . When we define selectors endpoint controller creates endpoints records in API, so traffic points directly to the Pods, backing the service.