Working with names

When you create any Kubernetes object, such as a Pod, Deployment, and Service, you can assign a name to it. The names in Kubernetes are spatially unique, which means you cannot assign the same name in the Pods.

Getting ready

Kubernetes allows us to assign a name with the following restrictions:

• Up to 253 characters
• Lowercase of alphabet and numeric characters
• May contain special characters in the middle, but only dashs (-) and dots (.)

How to do it...

For assigning a name to the Pod, follow the following steps:

1. The following example is the...