Summary

This chapter was quite a big one, but you should now have a good understanding of what pods are and how to use them, especially when it comes to managing multiple Docker containers in the same Pod. Since microservice applications are often made up of several containers and not just one, it's going to be difficult to manage only a single-container Pod in your cluster.

I recommend that you focus on mastering the declarative way of creating Kubernetes resources. As you have noticed in this chapter, the key to achieving the most complex things with Kubernetes resides in writing YAML files. One example is that you simply cannot create a multi-container Pod without writing YAML files.

This chapter completes the previous one: Chapter 4, Running Your Docker Containers. You need to understand that everything we will do with Kubernetes will be Pod management because everything in Kubernetes revolves around them. Keep in mind that containers are never created directly, but...