Kubernetes — Compute Architecture
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Control Plane
◎ Master node — orchestrates the cluster
kube-apiserver
REST gateway
etcd
Cluster state store
kube-scheduler
Pod placement
controller-manager
Reconcile loops
watch / reconcile via API server
Data Plane
■ Worker nodes — run the workloads
node-1
kubelet
kube-proxy
web-7f9b
api-3d2c
cache-1a4e
node-2
kubelet
kube-proxy
worker-b8c1
db-5e3f
node-3
kubelet
kube-proxy
svc-2d9a
job-6f1b
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Reconciliation loop:
desired state (etcd)
→ API server → scheduler → kubelet → containers