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The Kubernetes Bible - Second Edition
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The Kubernetes Bible - Second Edition

by Gineesh Madapparambath, Russ McKendrick
November 2024
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
19h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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4

Running Your Containers in Kubernetes

This chapter is probably the most important one in this book. Here, we are going to discuss the concept of Pods, which are the objects Kubernetes uses to launch your application containers. Pods are at the heart of Kubernetes and mastering them is essential.

In Chapter 3, Installing your First Kubernetes Cluster, we said that the Kubernetes API defines a set of resources representing a computing unit. Pods are resources that are defined in the Kubernetes API that represent one or several containers. We never create containers directly with Kubernetes, but we always create Pods, which will be converted into containers on a compute node in our Kubernetes cluster.

At first, it can be a little difficult to ...

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