From the course: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Cert Prep (2024)

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Kubernetes node roles

Kubernetes node roles - Kubernetes Tutorial

From the course: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) Cert Prep (2024)

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Kubernetes node roles

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- Before you are going to set up your own Kubernetes cluster, it helps to know a little bit about the different node roles that you can have in a Kubernetes environment. So to start with, there is a control plane. The control plane is a part of the cluster that runs Kubernetes core services, as well as Kubernetes agents. But typically no user workloads are running on the control plane. The control plane can be one node, it can also be multiple nodes that are set up for high availability. Then there is a worker plane. And the worker plane is typically a couple of nodes that run user workloads and Kubernetes agents. All of the nodes are configured with a container run time, which is required for running containerized workloads because in the end, Kubernetes is all about orchestrating containerized workloads. And that means that you need to run containers even if you are going to encapsulate these…

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