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Introduction

Explore the fundamentals of Kubernetes pods, which serve as the atomic units of scheduling for containerized applications. Learn how to define pods with containers, specify container images including registries, and deploy pods using manifest files. This lesson prepares you to manage and interact with pods effectively within Kubernetes.

Introduction to pods

Pods are where our applications run. It’s the basic building block and the atomic unit of scheduling in Kubernetes. Each pod will include one or more containers and every time we run a container in Kubernetes, it will be inside a pod.

Pods are the atomic unit of scheduling

It is important to understand that a pod is the atomic unit of scheduling in Kubernetes. So if we want to run, say, 10 ...