What Makes Up a Kubernetes Cluster? | Linux Today

What Makes Up a Kubernetes Cluster?

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Carla Schroder
Apr 17, 2017

A Kubernetes cluster is made of a master node and a set of worker nodes. In a production environment these run in a distributed setup on multiple nodes. For testing purposes, all the components can run on the same node (physical or virtual) by using minikube.

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