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Kubernetes Control Plane Components: The brain behind your cluster
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. At the heart of Kubernetes is the control plane, which consists of a set of components responsible for managing the cluster’s state and orchestration.
In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the Kubernetes control plane components, including their roles and responsibilities, and how they work together to manage your cluster.
Etcd is a distributed key-value store that stores the entire state of the Kubernetes cluster. It is the source of truth for all the objects in the cluster, including pods, services, and nodes. Etcd provides a highly available and consistent store for the Kubernetes control plane to access and modify. Read more…
The kube-apiserver is the front-end API for the Kubernetes control plane. It receives requests from users and other components, validates them, and stores them in etcd. The kube-apiserver also serves as the authentication and authorization mechanism for the cluster.
kube-scheduler
The kube-scheduler is responsible for assigning pods to nodes based on resource availability…
