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What is the difference between a Pod and a Deployment in Kubernetes?

A Pod is the smallest deployable unit — one or more tightly-coupled containers sharing network/storage. A Deployment is a higher-level controller that manages a desired number of Pod replicas, handling rollouts, rollbacks, and self-healing (recreating Pods that disappear) — you rarely create bare Pods directly in production.

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