Core Concepts
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Core Concepts
TL;DR
Kubernetes is a declarative orchestrator: you tell the API server "I want N replicas of this Pod with these resources", and the control plane (scheduler, controller-manager, etcd) plus per-node agents (kubelet, kube-proxy) drive reality tow…
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| Component | Purpose | |-----------|---------| | kube-apiserver | Frontend for the Kubernetes control plane, exposes REST API | | etcd | Consistent, highly-available key-value store for cluster data | | kube-scheduler | Watches for newly c…
Read →Quick recall Q&A
Q: What is a Pod and why is it the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes? A: A Pod is a group of one or more containers that share the same network namespace (localhost), storage volumes, and lifecycle. It is the smallest deployable unit b…
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