Workload Objects

Workload objects can be a simple POD with 1 or many containers. Alternatively other workload objects can be used to manage the lifetime of the POD - deployments, replicasets (don’t use them directly), statefulset, daemonset etc…

This image shows the workload objects - only some are required for CKA

Workload Objects Image by Max Brenner

In this section we are going to focus on PODs and Deployments (and to a lesser extent Services) in order test those areas for CKA.

In the diagram below we see the relationship between the 3 workload objects (deployment, replicaset, 3 pods) and 1 Networking Object (the service) Depoloyment_Pods