Your First Pod

Part of the Kubernetes course

In the last lesson you talked to a cluster, but you never asked it to run anything. That is the gap this lesson closes. Kubernetes does not run a container directly the way docker run does. It runs a Pod, a small wrapper around one container (or occasionally a few containers that need to share a network address and storage).

You will almost never create a bare Pod in a real system, for a reason you will see for yourself at the end of this lesson. But making one by hand, once, is the fastest way to see what every other Kubernetes object is standing on top of. ...