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Learn Kubernetes fundamentals

Kubernetes runs containerized applications across machines. You describe the desired pods, deployments, and services, and the control plane tries to keep the cluster there.

For developers who can run a container and want the core objects before cluster operations.

Start here

Do the interactive basics tutorial through Services, and write one sentence each for Pod, Deployment, and Service in your own words.

Recommended resources

Start here · Beginner

Learn Kubernetes Basics

The official interactive tutorial for deploying an app and exposing it.

kubernetes.io Concepts · Beginner

Kubernetes concepts overview

The object model the tutorial is walking through.

kubernetes.io Object · Beginner

Pods

The smallest deployable unit. Most later objects exist to manage pods.

kubernetes.io Object · Intermediate

Service

How other programs reach those pods through a stable address.

kubernetes.io