Chapter 4: Kubernetes Concepts and Windows Support

1. The control plane (master) consists of a set of components that are responsible for global decisions regarding the cluster, such as the scheduling and deployment of application instances to worker nodes and managing cluster events. The data plane consists of worker nodes that are responsible for running container workloads scheduled by the master.
2. Cluster management is performed using a declarative model, which makes Kubernetes very powerful—you describe the desired state and Kubernetes does all of the heavy lifting to transform the current state of the cluster to the desired state.
3. A Kubernetes Pod consists of one or more containers that share kernel namespaces, IPC, a network stack (so you address them by the same cluster IP and they can communicate via localhost), and storage. In other words, Pods can contain multiple...