Pods

Pods are the basic building block of Kubernetes, the smallest and simplest unit in the object model that you create or deploy. A Pod represents a running process on your cluster.

A Pod represents a unit of deployment. It encapsulates:

  • An application container (or, in some cases, multiple tightly coupled containers).
  • Storage resources.
  • A unique network IP.
  • Options that govern how the container(s) should run.