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Captain's dictionary

Every word from the ports, in one plain sentence, with the lesson that explains it.

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Control plane
The harbor office of the cluster: it decides what runs where and keeps the cluster in the state you asked for.
Explained at port 1.1 · The Cluster Map →
Cluster
The whole fleet: a set of machines (nodes) run together by one control plane.
Explained at port 1.1 · The Cluster Map →
kubelet
The agent on every node that starts Pods and reports back to the control plane.
Explained at port 1.8 · The kubelet →
Scheduler
The part of the control plane that picks a node for each new Pod.
Explained at port 1.7 · The scheduler: filter & score →