Kubernetes Basic Components

 Here is a quick view of few basic components of K8

Pod:

• Smallest unit of K8
• Abstraction over container
• Usually one application per Pod
• Each Pod gets his own IP address
• New IP address on re-creation

Services:

• An abstract way to load balance across the pods and expose an application deployed on a set of Pods.
• Permanent IP address

ConfigMap:

• External configuration of your application like DBs config etc

Secret:

• Used to store secret data like DBs username/pwd etc which can't be store in plain text in ConfigMap
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