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Kubelet: The Agent That Runs on Each Node to Manage Pods

Kubelet: The Agent That Runs on Each Node to Manage Pods

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Christopher Adamson
Apr 27, 2025
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Kubernetes is like an orchestra conductor for your containerized workloads, and Kubelet is one of the crucial musicians playing in perfect sync. It runs on every single node in your Kubernetes cluster and ensures the containers (inside Pods) are running exactly as they should be.

What is the Kubelet?

At a high level, the Kubelet is an agent. It runs on ev…

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