Cloud Computing Intermediate

What is Kubernetes Pod?

The smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes, consisting of one or more containers that share storage, network, and lifecycle.

A Pod encapsulates one or more containers (usually one main container plus optional sidecars). Containers in a Pod share the same IP address, port space, and volumes. Pods are ephemeral — they are created, run, and destroyed, not repaired.

Pod specifications define resource requests/limits, health checks, environment variables, and volume mounts. Pods are rarely created directly — Deployments, StatefulSets, and DaemonSets manage Pod lifecycle, scaling, and updates.

Related Terms

Microsoft's cloud computing platform offering IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services for building, deploying, and managing applications.

An approach to building applications that fully exploit cloud computing advantages like scalability, resilience, and flexibility.

Cloud Monitoring

Services that collect, analyze, and alert on metrics, logs, and traces from cloud infrastructure and applications.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Google's suite of cloud computing services running on the same infrastructure that Google uses for its consumer products.

SaaS (Software as a Service)

A cloud delivery model where software applications are hosted and managed by a provider and accessed by users over the internet.

Automatically adjusting the number of computing resources based on current demand to maintain performance and optimize costs.

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