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Kubernetes node roles

Kubernetes node roles - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Kubernetes node roles

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- In this class, I'm not going to show you any Kubernetes distributions. You are going to install Vanilla Kubernetes, and when you do so, it makes sense to understand about different node roles. To start with, there is what we call the control plane. We talk about a control plane because it can be just one node. It can also be multiple nodes. And on the control plane. you'll find Kubernetes core services, as well as Kubernetes agents, and you should not run user workloads up there. Then there is a worker plane, which runs the user workloads and Kubernetes agents. Typically, you would've at least two nodes in the worker plane, but it can be many more as well. All of these nodes are configured with a container runtime, and this is required for running containerized workloads. You don't need a full Docker installation or anything, just a tiny little part of Docker or Podman that is used to start containers. You will also need the kueblet systemd service, which is responsible for running…

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