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Single-Container vs. Multi-Container Pods

Explore the fundamentals of single-container and multi-container Pods in Kubernetes. Understand why single-container Pods are more common and how multi-container Pods serve specific purposes like CI/CD processes. Gain insights into Pod design choices for scalable and flexible application deployment.

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Single-container Pods

We should not think of Pods as resources that should do anything beyond the definition of the smallest unit in our cluster. A Pod is a collection of containers that share the same resources. Not much more. Everything else should be accomplished with higher-level constructs. In the next chapters, we’ll explore how to scale Pods without changing their definition.

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