</em> to an external service.
This DNS alias has the same form as the DNS entries for local services, namely
<code>&lt;service name>.&lt;namespace name>.svc.cluster.local</code>. DNS aliases provide <em>location transparency</em> for your workloads:
the workloads can call local and external services in the same way. If at some point in time you decide to deploy the
external service inside your cluster, you can just update its Kubernetes service to reference the local version. The workloads will continue to 