Pods

The Pod consists of one or more Docker containers. This is the basic unit of the Kubernetes platform and an elementary piece of execution that Kubernetes works with. A diagram of the Pod is presented as following:

Containers running in the same Pod share the same common network namespace, disk, and security context. In fact, the communication over localhost is recommended between containers running on the same Pod. Each container can also communicate with any other Pod or service within the cluster.

As you remember from Chapter 2, Networking and Persistent Storage, you can mount volumes within Docker containers. Kubernetes also supports ...

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