<p>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.</p>

<p>What is an 'endpoint' in terms of Kubernetes? Where is it located?</p>

<p>I could image the 'endpoint' is some kind of access point for an individual 'node' but that's just a guess. </p>

Chris
<p>While you're correct that in the <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/glossary" rel="noreferrer">glossary</a> there's indeed no entry for endpoint, it is a well defined Kubernetes network concept or abstraction. Since it's of secondary nature, you'd usually not directly manipulate it. There's a core resource <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/v1.22/#endpoints-v1-core" rel="noreferrer">Endpoint</a> defined and it's also supported on the command line:</p>
<pre><code>$ kubectl get endpoints
NAME         ENDPOINTS            AGE
kubernetes   192.168.64.13:8443   10d
</code></pre>
<p>And there you see what it effectively is: an IP address and a port. Usually, you'd let a service manage endpoints (one EP per pod the service routes traffic to) but you can also <a href="https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#headless-services" rel="noreferrer">manually manage</a> them if you have a use case that requires it.</p>
