August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
9h 29m
English
The pod is a new concept introduced by Kubernetes. A pod is comprised of a group of related containers that represent a specific application. This is the most basic unit within Kubernetes; you don't have to keep thinking about containers because pods are what you should focus on here.
Let's consider an application called XYZ that stores its information in a database that exposes a REST API that is consumed by its UI, as shown in the following diagram:

It's obvious that we need three separate services to make this application work. If we were dealing with Docker, we would say that we need three ...
Read now
Unlock full access