Kubernetes YAML Definition Files
A Kubernetes definition file always contains four top-level fields
- apiVersion: this is the version of the kubernetes API
- kind: the kind refers to the type of object we are trying to create which in this case happens to be a pod. some other
- metadata: is data about the object as its name tags, etc and it comes in a form of dictionary
- spec: for a pod it should be easy to specify for other objects its important to check the kubernetes docs.
- containers:
- name: nginx-container
- image: nginx these are the top-level or root-level properties these are also required fields so you must have them in your config file.
- containers:
to create a pod from a def file you can run this command
kubectl create -f pod-definition.ymls
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