container (Pod, ReplicationController, Deployment) • Discovery & Load Balancing: Joins workloads together into an externally accessible, load-balanced service (Service, Ingress) • Con fi g & Storage: Inject initialization and persist data externally (Volume, Secret) • Metadata: Con fi gure behavior of other resources within a cluster (LimitRange) • Cluster: Responsible for de fi ning the con fi guration of the cluster itself (Namespace, Binding)