Hands-On Software Engineering with Golang

Peeking under the hood

Okay, so we have already mentioned that Kubernetes will do the heavy lifting and manage different types of containerized workloads for you. But how does this work under the hood? The following diagram illustrates the basic components that comprise a Kubernetes cluster:

Figure 1: A high-level overview of a Kubernetes cluster

A Kubernetes cluster consists of two types of nodes: masters and workers. These can be either physical or virtual machines. The master nodes implement the control plane for your cluster, whereas the worker nodes pool their resources together (CPUs, memory, disk, or even GPUs) and execute the workloads ...