A Quick Way to Run Pods

Creating a Pod with Mongo

Just as we can execute docker run to create containers, kubectl allows us to create Pods with a single command. For example, if we’d like to create a Pod with a Mongo database, the command is as follows:

You’ll notice that the output says that “pod/db created”. We have created our first Pod. We can confirm that by listing all the Pods in the cluster.

The output should be something like this:

In the output, we can see the following:

• The name of the Pod
• Its readiness