Kubernetes in Gaurav’s words

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What is Kubernetes?

  • Container-orchestration engine

Why Kubernetes?

  • Manage multi-node containers
  • Manage microservices

How Kubernetes works?

  • Control plane
    • api-server (Collection of k8s APIs)
    • kube-controller-manager
      • node-controller
      • few other controllers as well
    • scheduler (Allocate container to nodes)
    • etcd (KV pair) (Brain of cluster)
  • Worker Nodes
    • kubelet (Manages node)
    • kube-proxy (Runs on each worker node. Enables n/w communication b/w nodes)
    • docker/rkt (Container runtime)
  • Others
    • DNS

What is pod?

  • Atomic unit of k8s
  • Contain one or more containers
  • Lives as long as there is at least one container running