Common use cases for DaemonSets

At this point, you may wonder what is the actual use of the DaemonSet and what are the real-life use cases for this Kubernetes object? In general, DaemonSets are used either for very fundamental functions of the cluster, without which it is not useable, or for helper workloads performing maintenance or data collection. We have summarized the common and interesting use cases for DaemonSets in the following points:

• Depending on your cluster deployment, the kube-proxy core service may be deployed as a DaemonSet instead of a regular operating system service. For example, in the case of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), you can see the definition of this DaemonSet using the kubectl describe ds -n kube-system kube-proxy command. This is a perfect example of a backbone service that needs to run as a singleton on each Node in the cluster. You can also see an example YAML manifest for kube-proxy here: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master...