Understanding Pods, Nodes, Deployments and Services

Pods and nodes are both fundamental concepts in the Kubernetes architecture, but they serve different purposes. A pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, representing a single instance of a running process in a cluster. A pod can contain one or more tightly-coupled containers that share the same network namespace and storage volumes. All containers in a pod run on the same node, and they can communicate with each other using local host networking. ...

September 13, 2024 · 12 min