Kubernetes 101 : Static pods and the Kubelet



Static pods:

We can use the kubelet to start pods - called static pods -, delete them and restart them when they crash.

We could do that by placing the configuration Yaml files of the pods in a reserved directory on the host - 
"/etc/kubernetes/manifests" -.

We could configure the kubelet to go through that folder, and create the pods according to the Yaml files there.
If we delete a pod's Yaml file, the kubelet will delete the pod related to it.

The kubelet regularly checks the "/etc/kubernetes/manifests" folder, and create the pods corresponding to the Yaml files there, or deletes the pods whose Yaml files have been deleted.


If we make a modification to a Yaml file of a pod, the kubelet recreates the new pod with the changes.

The kubelet service:

When we start a kubelet as a service, we can pass to it as a parameter the directory of the manifest folder 
"/etc/kubernetes/manifests" as we can see below:



Remark:

Usually we have this and other parameters in the below file: "/etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf"

The kube-apiserver is aware of the static pods, since it can display them when we run the below command:


We can't manage or delete the static pods using the kubectl tool, we can only display them.

Remark:

The naming convention for the static pods is a below:


We could use the static pods to run kubernetes processes, like the kube-api server, the etcd server , ...

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