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Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA (Kubernetes v1.35 curriculum) · Domain 3: Services and Networking

CoreDNS: the coredns ConfigMap and Corefile, forwarding and stub zones, Service and Pod DNS records, dnsPolicy

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

CoreDNS is the cluster DNS server. On kubeadm clusters it runs as the coredns Deployment in kube-system, exposed by a Service still named kube-dns for compatibility, usually at the tenth address of the Service CIDR (10.96.0.10 with kubeadm's default). The kubelet writes that address into every Pod's /etc/resolv.conf.

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