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Pods
Overview
Pods are the smallest unit in a Kubernetes cluster; which encompass one or more application ⇒ it represents processes running on a cluster. Pods are used to manage your application instance.
- In our nodes, and within our Kubernetes cluster, the smallest unit that we can work with are pods.
- Containers are part of a larger object, which is the pod
- Each container within a pod share an IP address, storage and namespace — each container usually has a distinct role inside the pod
- Note that pods usually operate on a higher level than containers; there are more of an abstraction of the processes within a container than the container itself
- A pod can also run multiple containers; all containers are started in parallel ⇒ this makes it difficult to know which process started before another
- Usually, one pod is used per container process; reasons to run two containers within a pod might be logging purposes
- nitContainers can be used to ensure some
containers are ready before others in a pod. To support a single process
running in a container, you may need logging, a proxy, or special
adapter. These tasks are often handled by other containers in the same
Pod.
- Usually each pod has one IP address
- You may find the term sidecar for a container dedicated to
performing a helper task, like handling logs and responding to requests,
as the primary application container may have this ability.
Running multiple containers in one pod
An example for running multiple containers within a pod would be an app server pod that contains three separate containers: the app server itself, a monitoring adapter, and a logging adapter. Resulting, all containers combines will provide one service.