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k8s concepts

SEAN K.H. LIAO

cube uhhm nates

k8s concepts

kubternetes

the thing that eats up all your computers

cluster

collection of resources (computers) managed by kubernetes

node

a single compute resource (vm or hardware computer) to schedule tasks on

containers

smallest packaging unit, everything is built on top

pod

smallest schedulable unit, collection of containers that run together, shares a filesystem and network stack

deployment

collection of identical pods

service

unified interface to the multiple pods in a deployment

ingress

exposed interface to the outside world, read and fulfilled by ingress controllers

ingressroute

fancier version of ingress

ingress controller

edge router that sits between cluster and outside world