Chapter 13: DaemonSet – Maintaining Pod Singletons on Nodes
The previous chapters have explained and demonstrated how to use the most common Kubernetes controllers for managing Pods, such as ReplicaSet, Deployment, and StatefulSet. Generally, when running cloud application components that contain the actual business logic you will need either Deployments or StatefulSets for controlling your Pods. In some cases, when you need to run batch workloads as part of your application, you will use Jobs and CronJobs.
However, in some cases, you will need to run components that have a supporting function and, for example, execute maintenance tasks or aggregate logs and metrics. More specifically, if you have any tasks that need to be executed for each ...
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