- Pods are the smallest, most basic deployable object
- State of the pod is pending, running, succeeded / failed
- Pods are instantiated
- Pods contains one or more containers
- pods are part of nodes
- each pod has unique IP address
- pod is created in node
- typically, same service / app containers are not deployed in same pod (port has to be unique)
- Pods are like minions.
- Pods is virtual or logical concept… pods cannot be accessed directly.
- network parameters within a pod are shared across all containers
- pods can communicate across nodes directly