Oct 28, 2025 · A Pod (as in a pod of whales or pea pod) is a group of one or more containers, with shared storage and network resources, and a specification for how to run the containers. …

Nov 18, 2024 · A Pod is a group of one or more application containers (such as Docker) and includes shared storage (volumes), IP address and information about how to run them.

Oct 21, 2024 · The eviction API will disallow eviction of any pod covered by multiple PDBs, so most users will want to avoid overlapping selectors. One reasonable use of overlapping PDBs …

Sep 26, 2025 · These Pods have a lifetime that is tied to a machine lifetime: the Pod needs to be running on the machine before other Pods start, and are safe to terminate when the machine …

May 21, 2025 · Upon Pod termination, the kubelet postpones terminating sidecar containers until the main application container has fully stopped. The sidecar containers are then shut down in …

Jul 12, 2023 · In Kubernetes, a Pod represents a set of running containers on your cluster. Kubernetes pods have a defined lifecycle. For example, once a pod is running in your cluster …

Nov 21, 2025 · The horizontal pod autoscaling controller, running within the Kubernetes control plane, periodically adjusts the desired scale of its target (for example, a Deployment) to match …

Sep 24, 2025 · Kubernetes uses a higher-level abstraction, called a controller, that handles the work of managing the relatively disposable Pod instances. A given Pod (as defined by a UID) …

Sep 24, 2025 · One use case for selecting over labels is to constrain the set of nodes onto which a pod can schedule. See the documentation on node selection for more information.

Jul 29, 2025 · For example, given a Pod with spec.hostname set to "my-host", the Pod will have its hostname set to "my-host". The Pod spec also has an optional subdomain field which can …