Day 3: Understanding Nodes, Clusters & the Kubernetes Control Plane

Let’s Begin With What You Might Know

So far, you know that Kubernetes runs your apps inside containers, but not directly. It runs Pods, which wrap around those containers.

But now the question is…

“Where are these Pods actually running?”
“Who decides when, where, and how they run?”

To answer that, we need to understand:

• What a Node is

• What a Cluster is

• And what the Control Plane does

Let’s break it down...

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