| text = It's important to note right up front, before you dive into Kubernetes, that [[minikube]] is the tool for ''local'' Kubernetes.
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==Kubernetes Components==
[[File:Components-of-kubernetes.png|thumb|left|800px|Kubernetes Components|link=https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/components/]]
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;Pod: abstraction of a container;Service: communication between Pods;Ingress: route traffic into cluster;ConfigMap: external configuration;Secret: external configuration;Volume: data persistence
;Blueprints:
;Deployments: for replication of stateless services; a template for creating pods; Declarative so the Controller Manager can check and ensure system is what we want. Each configuration file has 3 parts: metadata, specification, status (automatically generated and added by K8s);StatefulSet: replication of stateful applications like databases
Current status comes from etcd - the "Cluster Brain".
