11 The core of the control plane
This chapter covers
- Investigating core components of the control plane
- Reviewing API server details
- Exploring scheduler interfaces and its inner workings
- Walking through the controller manager and cloud manager
Previously, we provided a high-level overview of Pods, a web application outlining why we need Pods, and how Kubernetes is built with Pods. Now that we’ve covered all of our requirements for the use case, let’s dive into the details of the control plane. Typically, all of the control plane components are installed in the kube-system namespace, a namespace where you, as an operator, should install very few components.
Note You should just not use kube-system! One of the main reasons is that noncontroller ...
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