the smallest deployable object in the Kubernetes object model - Can hold one or more containers Deployment: Controller for Pods and ReplicaSets - Great for stateless apps, like restful Api - Scaling of the pods StatefulSet: Controller for manage stateful applications - Maintain order, sticky identity, no interchangeability of the Pods 7
have some Operational knowledge baked in and automated • Handling upgrades from one version to another • Handling complex failure recovery scenarios • Scaling a stateful application up and down • Best suited for complex and stateful services