Nodes (formerly minions)

In each node, we have several components as mentioned already. Let's look at each of them in detail.

The kubelet interacts with the API server to update the state and to start new workloads that have been invoked by the scheduler. As previously mentioned, this agent runs on every node of the cluster. The primary interface of the kubelet is one or more PodSpecs, which ensure that the containers and configurations are healthy.

The kube-proxy provides basic load balancing and directs the traffic destined for specific services to the proper pod on the backend. It maintains these network rules to enable the service abstraction through connection forwarding.

The last major component of the node is the container runtime, ...

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