What is POD? define in 15 bullets points

  • 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