Static Pod In Kubernetes
If you are into Kubernetes world you would know that the very first thing that we encounter is the concept of the pod. If you are not familiar with what a Kubernetes Pod is I would recommend to first check out the Kubernetes docs.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod/
This tutorial will assume that you have a basic understanding of Kubernetes and how pods work. Additionally, you should have access to a Kubernetes cluster to do the lab described here. I will perform this lab on a 3 node GKE cluster and try to create a Static Pod. The nodes are on Ubuntu 16.04 which is having systemd as an init system which is used to bootstrap and manage the Kubernetes components .
Now, let us jump directly into, what actually a static pod is and how we can create it!
Static pods are a kind of pod that is not observed or managed via kube-apiserver and is directly bound to the kubelet daemon on the node. We will do some more analysis …
