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Kubernetes Controller Manager: Manages Controllers That Regulate the State of the Cluster

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Christopher Adamson
May 03, 2025
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The Controller Manager is a daemon that runs in the Kubernetes control plane. It’s responsible for running a suite of background threads called controllers. Each controller watches the cluster's state through the Kubernetes API and tries to make changes to reach the desired state defined in the specs.

Think of it as the conductor of an orchestra. The ins…

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