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Control Plane and Nodes: Worker Nodes

Explore the role of worker nodes within Kubernetes architecture, focusing on key components like kubelet, container runtimes, and kube-proxy. Understand how these elements manage application execution, report statuses, and handle network traffic, enabling effective workload operation in a Kubernetes cluster.

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Worker Nodes

Worker nodes are for running user applications and look like the following figure:

Worker nodes
Worker nodes

Let’s look at the major worker node components.

Kubelet

The kubelet is the main Kubernetes agent and handles all communication with the cluster. ...