Kubernetes Architecture

High-level architecture diagram of the K8s components

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Configuration

• Saved in json format
• Usually users used YAML format, Kubernetes agents convert the YAML to JSON prior to persistence to the database.

Container creation and management.

Buildah, Podman, containerd

Challenges

• continuous integration pipeline
• cluster of machines
• you must be able to perform rolling updates and rollbacks
• tear down the resource when no longer needed
• flexible, scalable, and easy-to-manage network and storage

References

1. LinuxFoundationX LFS158x. Chapter 4. Kubernetes Architecture
2. https://trainingportal.linuxfoundation.org/courses/kubernetes-for-developers-lfd259 Kubernetes Architecture