The relationship between nodes and pods In Kubernetes, the relationship between nodes and pods is central to how applications are deployed and managed. Understanding what nodes and pods are, individually, helps clarify their interaction.
What are Pods? A pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes and serves as a wrapper for one or more containers. Each pod is designed to run a single instance of a given application or service. It can contain one or multiple containers (usually Docker containers), and these containers within a pod share resources like networking and storage. Containers in the same pod can communicate with each other using localhost, as they share the same network namespace.
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