I installed minikube and created a simple application with a deployment of 3 pods and a service that points to this deployment.

This is a very simple nginx image, I am using it just to learn the tooling.

At some point, I changed my pods inside the deployment to have a volume, so I deleted the deployment and recreated (this is defined by deployment.yaml).

However, the mounting point only worked after I deleted the service and re-created it again (defined by service.yaml).

Why the service needed to be recreated so the mounting point worked inside the pod?

This service file had no changes whatsoever, and my understanding was that services reached the pods based on selector rules and that these (deployments and services) could be created and modified independently without any specific tie.

Thanks!