April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
468 pages
14h 34m
English
A node is a single host. It may be a physical or virtual machine. Its job is to run pods, which we will look at in a moment. Each Kubernetes node runs several Kubernetes components, such as a kubelet and a kube proxy. Nodes are managed by a Kubernetes master. The nodes are the worker bees of Kubernetes and shoulder all the heavy lifting. In the past, they were called minions. If you have read some old documentation or articles, don't get confused. Minions are nodes.
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