Kubernetes

Kubernetes orchestrates containers across a cluster — scheduling pods, scaling deployments, exposing services, and self-healing failed workloads. You interact via kubectl and the API server; cluster state is stored in etcd (see the etcd lab). Common issues include pods stuck in Pending or CrashLoopBackOff, broken networking, RBAC denials, and control-plane health. Package management with Helm is covered in the Helm lab.