Kubernetes Basic Terminology and Components
Node - Component of a cluster on which Kubernetes is installed to manage the containers.
Pod - An atomic unit of a node on which container is deployed.
Pod - An atomic unit of a node on which container is deployed.
Cluster - Group of nodes.
Master Node - Watcher node monitoring all the worker nodes with Kubernetes installed and can manage the worker nodes.
API Server - interface to interact with Kubernetes.
etcd - key-value store required to manage the cluster.
Kubelet - Agent running on each node of a cluster, to ensure the containers are running as designed.
Scheduler - Responsible for distributing work across nodes in cluster.
Controller - Brain behind orchestration. Responsible for managing the state of cluster i.e; bring up any containers that are down.
Container Runtime - Software used to run containers (eg: Docker)
