July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
14h
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes
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The kubelet
The kubelet is a Kubernetes agent. It's responsible for talking to the API server and for running and managing the pods on the node. Here are some of the responsibilities of the kubelet:
- Downloading pod secrets from the API server
- Mounting volumes
- Running the pod container via the Container Runtime Interface (CRI)
- Reporting the status of the node and each pod
- Probe container liveness