November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
238 pages
2h 42m
English
The Pod is the masterpiece of the Kubernetes cluster architecture.
The fundamental goal of Kubernetes is to help you manage your containers. The Pod is the minimal piece deployable in a Kubernetes cluster, containing one or several containers.
From the kubectl command
line, you can run a Pod containing a container as simply as running this command:
$ kubectl run nginx --image=nginx
pod/nginx created
By adding --dry-run=client -o yaml to the command, you can see the YAML template you would have to write to create the same Pod:
$ kubectl run ...
