Answers

Here are some sample answers to the questions presented in this chapter:

1. A Kubernetes cluster consists of a control plane (Kubernetes Master) and several worker nodes. The control plane is responsible for maintaining the desired state of the cluster, such as which applications are running and which container images they use. Worker nodes are the servers where applications are deployed and run.
2. The Kubernetes master is responsible for managing the cluster. All requests to create objects, reschedule pods, manage ReplicaSets, and more happen on the master. The master does not run the application workload in a production or production-like cluster.
3. On each worker node, we have the kubelet, the proxy, and container runtime.
4. The answer is A. True. You cannot run standalone containers on a Kubernetes cluster. Pods are the atomic units of Deployment in such a cluster.
5. A Kubernetes pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes. It can run one or multiple...