Kubernetes Pod and Container Concepts
External
- https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/ (fully synced ✓)
Internal
Overview
A pod is the fundamental, atomic compute unit created and managed by Kubernetes. An application is deployed as one or more equivalent pods - when an application has more pods, the pods are called replicas. A pod groups together one or more containers. There are several types of containers: application containers, init containers and ephemeral containers. Pods are deployed on worker nodes. A pod has a well-defined lifecycle with several phases, and the pod's containers can only be in one of a well-defined number of states. Kubernetes learns of what happens with a container by container probes.
Pod
A pod is a group of one or more containers Kubernetes deploys and manages a compute unit, and the specification for how to run the containers. Kubernetes will not manage compute entities with smaller granularity, such as containers or processes.
The containers of a pod are atomically deployed and managed as a group. A useful mental model when thinking of a pod is that of a logical host, where all its containers share a context.
Pod Operation Atomicity
The containers in a pod share network resources and storage. From this perspective, a pod can be thought of as a logical host with all its processes (containers) sharing the network stack and the storage available to the host.
Pod Lifecycle
Pod Phases
Pods and Nodes
Pods and Containers
Container
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Container Types
Application Container
Init Container
Ephemeral Container
Container States
Container Probes
Summary of a relationship between container probe result and overall pod situation.