© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023
H. AgrawalKubernetes Fundamentalshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9729-2_3

3. Fundamental Objects in Kubernetes Clusters

Himanshu Agrawal1  
(1)
Pune, India
 

After getting to know the Kubernetes architecture and object management in the previous chapter, in this chapter you will learn everything you need to know about containers and pods.

We will start our discussion with containers, including what a container is and what a container image is. We will go through several important questions such as can containers heal by themselves, and can containers hold any application state? We will explore container life-cycle hooks and how we can use them to perform ...

Get Kubernetes Fundamentals: A Step-by-Step Development and Interview Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.