What is the difference between platform registration and client registration of SC in K8?

[shri-arunraj]

Hello,

Im trying to deploy SC in K8. I have already deployed with platform registration mode as documented here https://service-center.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev-guides/helm.html?highlight=platform#platform-registration.

In the SC UI web console dashboard, i can see 5 services up and running including SC self registered one.
After that when my microservice boots up, it can register itself with SC. And in the log i can see the unique service Id getting registered successfully. But in the SC UI the newly registered microservice is not showing up in the list.

Basically for understanding, it is not quite obvious from the documentation - What is the difference between platform and client side registration deployment mode of K8?

What could go wrong with platform registration mode which does not display newly registered service in the list?

Please help me understand!.

Thanks,
Meenakshi

[little-cui]

After integrating with K8s, users only need to write K8s service (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/) and create it, it will be automatically synchronized to SC, and all components discovered through the client can be accessed K8s service.