I have created a very simple spring boot application with only one REST service. This app is converted into a docker image ("springdockerimage:1") and deployed in the Kubernetes cluster with 3 replicas. Contents of my "Deployment" definition is as follows:

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: springapp
  labels:
   app: distributiondemo
spec:
 selector:
   matchLabels:
     app: distributiondemo
 replicas: 3
 template:
   metadata:
     labels:
       app: distributiondemo
   spec:
     containers:
      - name: spring-container
        image: springdockerimage:1

I have created service for my above deployment as follows:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: springservice
  labels:
    app: distributiondemo
spec:
  selector:
    app: distributiondemo
  ports:
  - port: 8080
    protocol: TCP
    targetPort: 8080
    name: spring-port
    nodePort: 32000
  type: NodePort

After deploying both the above YAML(deployment and service) files, I noticed that everything has been deployed as expected i.e., 3 replicas are created and my service is having 3 endpoints as well. Below screenshot is the proof of the same:

Since I am using minikube for my local testing, I am port forwarding and accessing the application as kubectl port-forward deployment.apps/springapp 40002:8080 .

But one thing I noticed is that all my HTTP requests are getting redirected to only one pod.

while true ; do curl http://localhost:40002/docker-java-app/test ;done

I am not getting where exactly I am doing it wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.