Masters and Nodes: Nodes

Learn about the workers of the Kubernetes cluster: nodes.

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Nodes

Nodes are the workers of a Kubernetes cluster. At a high level, they do three things:

  1. Watch the API Server for new work assignments.
  2. Execute new work assignments.
  3. Report back to the control plane (via the API server).

As we can see from the figure below, they’re a bit simpler than masters.

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