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Services, Load Balancing, and Network Policies
In the previous chapter, we kicked off our Kubernetes Bootcamp to give you a quick but thorough introduction to Kubernetes basics and objects. We started by breaking down the main parts of a Kubernetes cluster, focusing on the control plane and worker nodes. The control plane is the brain of the cluster, managing everything including scheduling tasks, creating deployments, and keeping track of Kubernetes objects. The worker nodes are used to run the applications, including components like the kubelet service, keeping the containers healthy, and kube-proxy to handle the network connections.
We looked at how you interact with a cluster using the kubectl tool, which lets you run commands directly ...
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