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Cloud Native with Kubernetes
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Cloud Native with Kubernetes

by Alexander Raul
January 2021
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
8h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Cloud Native with Kubernetes

Chapter 3: Running Application Containers on Kubernetes

This chapter contains a comprehensive overview of the smallest Lego block that Kubernetes provides – the Pod. Included is an explanation of the PodSpec YAML format and possible configurations, and a quick discussion of how Kubernetes handles and schedules Pods. The Pod is the most basic way to run applications on Kubernetes and is used in all higher-order application controllers.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is a Pod?
  • Namespaces
  • The Pod life cycle
  • The Pod resource spec
  • Pod scheduling

Technical requirements

In order to run the commands detailed in this chapter, you will need a computer that supports the kubectl command-line tool, along with a working Kubernetes ...

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