Getting a list of nodes

To start working with nodes, you need to get a list of them first. To get the nodes list, run the following command:

$ kubectl get nodes

We get the following list of nodes using the preceding command:

Figure 3.1 – Nodes list

The preceding list shows we have three nodes in our Kubernetes cluster with a Ready status and Kubernetes version 1.17.5-gke.9. However, if you have cloud-supported node pools with autoscaling, your nodes list could be different because nodes will be added/removed depending on the number of applications running in your cluster.