How Kubernetes Works
Learn how Kubernetes, clusters, and the worker node and its components work.
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Worker node
A worker node can be any physical or virtual machine where containers are deployed. Every node in a Kubernetes cluster must run a container runtime like Docker.
The worker node contains the following components:
- Container runtime
- kubelet
- kube-proxy
These components run on every node and are responsible for maintaining running Pods and providing the Kubernetes runtime environment.
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