The architecture of Kubernetes is focused around the concept of a loosely coupled, flexible mechanism for service discovery. Like most other distributed middleware platforms, a Kubernetes cluster is composed of one or more master nodes and multiple compute nodes. The following diagram depicts a high-level view of a Kubernetes cluster:
Kubernetes Master nodes essentially make up the brain of the cluster. They are responsible for managing the overall cluster, exposing APIs, and scheduling deployments. Kubernetes nodes (right-hand side of the preceding diagram) contain the services that are needed to ...
