Like a group of whales, or perhaps a pea pod, a Kubernetes pod is a group of linked containers. As the following diagram shows, a pod can be made up of one or more containers; often a pod might just be a single container:
Pods are a logical grouping of one or more containers
Each pod that Kubernetes schedules is allocated its own unique IP address. The network namespace (and thus the pod's IP address) is shared by each container in the pod.
This means that it is convenient to deploy several containers together that closely collaborate over the network. For example, you might deploy a reverse proxy alongside a web application to add ...
