Ensuring flexible usage of your containers
Pod, in Kubernetes, means a set of containers, which is also the smallest computing unit. You may have known about the basic usage of pod in the previous recipes. Pods are usually managed by replication controllers and exposed by services; they work as applications with this scenario.
In this recipe, we will discuss two new features: job and daemon set. These two features can make the usage of pods more effective.
Getting ready
What are a job-like pod and a daemon-like pod? Pods in a Kubernetes job will be terminated directly after they complete their work. On the other hand, a daemon-like pod will be created in every node, while users want it to be a long running program served as a system daemon.
Both the ...
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