Building Enterprise JavaScript Applications

Kubernetes objects

Now that you understand the different Components that make up the Kubernetes system, let's shift our attention to Kubernetes API Objects, or Objects (with a capital O), for short.

As you already know, with Kubernetes, you don't need to interact directly with individual Kubernetes Components; instead, you interact with kube-apiserver and the API server will coordinate actions on your behalf.

The API abstracts away raw processes and entities into abstract concepts called Objects. For instance, instead of asking the API server to "Run these groups of related containers on a node", you'd instead ask "Add this Pod to the cluster". Here, the group of containers is abstracted to a Pod Object. When we work with Kubernetes, all ...