kubectl & Kubernetes Manifests: The Basics
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The minimum Kubernetes vocabulary needed to deploy and inspect a workload on EKS.
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Key points
- •kubectl works identically against any Kubernetes cluster, including EKS — that portability is Kubernetes' core value proposition
- •A Pod is the smallest deployable unit; a Deployment manages a desired set of Pod replicas and their rollout
- •A Service gives a Deployment's pods a stable network identity even as individual pods are replaced
- •On EKS, a LoadBalancer-type Service or Ingress triggers the AWS Load Balancer Controller to provision a real NLB/ALB