Understanding Kubernetes Architecture — A Beginner’s Guide

Unveiling the Blueprint: Navigating the Inner Workings of Kubernetes

routerhan
4 min readMay 3, 2023

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In this post, we will again discuss the key components of the Kubernetes system architecture, as highlighted in the diagram from the Kubernetes documentation.

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A deployment of Kubernetes is called a “Cluster.”

On the left side of the diagram is the control plane, which is responsible for making decisions about the cluster and detecting and responding to events within the cluster.

The control plane consists of several components, including the Kubernetes API server, etcd, the Kubernetes scheduler, the…

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routerhan

R&D Software Engineer @IBM Germany. This blog is an independent research of cloud computing.