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Pod

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/pɑːd/nounCommon term

In software engineering, pod means: The smallest unit that Kubernetes runs: one or more containers that are always placed together on the same node and share a network address and storage.

In Turkish: pod, Kubernetes pod'u, konteyner grubu

How it is used

Pods are created, scheduled, restarted, evicted and killed. Engineers check pod status with kubectl: Running, Pending or CrashLoopBackOff. Pods are temporary; a Deployment replaces them when they die.

Example sentences

  1. The pod is stuck in CrashLoopBackOff, so let's look at its logs.

  2. Each pod runs the app container plus a small sidecar that ships logs.

Common collocations

  • pod status
  • restart a pod
  • pod crashed
  • pending pod
  • kill a pod
  • KubernetesAn open-source system that runs and manages containers across many machines: it starts them, restarts failed ones, spreads traffic and scales them up or down.
  • nodeOne machine, physical or virtual, that is part of a cluster. In Kubernetes, worker nodes are the machines where pods actually run.
  • containerA lightweight, isolated package that holds an application together with everything it needs to run, so it behaves the same on a laptop, a test server or in the cloud.
  • clusterA group of connected machines that work together as one system, for example to run containers in Kubernetes or to store data in a database.
  • deployTo put a new version of software onto servers or devices so that it starts running there, for example in a test environment or for real users.

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