Service Discovery
Service discovery is the automatic detection of devices and services offered by these devices on a computer network. A service discovery protocol (SDP) is a network protocol that helps accomplish service discovery. Service discovery aims to reduce the configuration efforts from users.
Service discovery requires a common language to allow software agents to make use of one another’s services without the need for continuous user intervention.
This important in [microservices] architecture and [kubernetes] have it’s own service discovery and managed [dns].