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Container Orchestration

What is a Pod?

A pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers that share networking and storage. Pods are ephemeral and managed by controllers like Deployments.

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KubernetesNamespaceStatefulSetDaemonSet

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