Step 01 · Browser
The journey begins at the URL bar
https://myapp.example.com
Resolving host…
Zero packets sent yet
The browser hasn't opened a socket. First it needs to turn a hostname into an IP address.
That IP won't be your pod — it'll be a cloud load balancer in front of the cluster. But the browser doesn't know that.
Step 01 · network
User types myapp.example.com