Includes everything it needs to run Runtime, system tools, libraries, settings Built on top of facilities of linux kernel Does not include / require a separate operating system Should do ONE thing only (PHP, Apache)
will launch a specified number of pods called replicas and makes sure that they keep running, for example when a node fails or something inside of a pod, that is, in one of its containers goes wrong.
1h v1.7.8-gke.0 Gke-scaling-wordpress-default-pool-3359c7d4-6rdr Ready 1h v1.7.8-gke.0 Gke-scaling-wordpress-default-pool-3359c7d4-l6sv Ready 1h v1.7.8-gke.0 Wahey! We have a cluster