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Static Pod

A pod managed directly by the kubelet from a manifest file on the node rather than by the API server.

Definition

kubeadm runs control plane components as static pods from /etc/kubernetes/manifests. The kubelet creates a read-only mirror pod in the API for visibility.

Example

Editing /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml restarts the API server.

Exam tip

Deleting a static pod with kubectl does not remove it; edit or remove the manifest file.

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