The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit

Defining Pods through declarative syntax

Even though a Pod can contain any number of containers, the most common use case is to use the single-container-in-a-Pod model. In such a case, a Pod is a wrapper around one container. From Kubernetes' perspective, a Pod is the smallest unit. We cannot tell Kubernetes to run a container. Instead, we ask it to create a Pod that wraps around a container.

Let's take a look at a simple Pod definition:

cat pod/db.yml  

The output is as follows:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: db
  labels:
    type: db
    vendor: Mongo Labs
spec:
  containers:
  - name: db
    image: mongo:3.3
    command: ["mongod"]
    args: ["--rest", "--httpinterface"]  

We're using v1 of Kubernetes Pods API. Both apiVersion and kind are mandatory. ...