What is Pod in kubernetes.

  • Pods are the atomic unit of kubernetes.
  • Pod  is a group of one or more containers.
  • Pods can only be instantiated not created.
  • Pods can be created using yaml or json.
  • Pod has multiple states. Running, Pending and succeeded/failed
  • Each pod connects to common pod network
  • Pods can only be instantiated not created
  • Service serves as an internal load balancer for pod
  • Each pod has an ip and port
  • If more than one container are available in a pod. Each container will have a sperate port address