Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Discuss the main components of a Kubernetes cluster.

• Learn details of the master agent kube-apiserver.

• Explain how the etcd database keeps the cluster state and configuration.

• Study the kubelet local agent.

• Examine how controllers are used to manage the cluster state.

• Discover what a Pod is to the cluster.

• Examine network configurations of a cluster.

• Discuss Kubernetes services.