The Pod is the masterpiece of the Kubernetes cluster architecture.
The fundamental goal of Kubernetes is to help you manage your containers. The Pod is the minimal piece deployable in a Kubernetes cluster, containing one or several containers.
From the kubectl command
line, you can run a Pod containing a container as simply as running this command:
$ kubectl run nginx --image=nginx
pod/nginx created
By adding --dry-run=client -o yaml to the command, you can see the YAML template you would have to write to create the same Pod:
$ kubectl run ...
