Kubernetes Architecture Overview

Kubernetes follows a client-server architecture with a control plane and worker nodes.

Control Plane Components:

• API Server: Frontend for the control plane.
• etcd: Distributed key-value store for all cluster data.
• Controller Manager: Ensures desired state of cluster.
• Scheduler: Assigns workloads to nodes.

Worker Node Components:

• kubelet: Agent that communicates with control plane.
• kube-proxy: Handles networking rules on nodes.
• Container Runtime: (Docker, containerd, etc.) Runs the containers.