Kubernetes Cheat Sheet: Essential Concepts and Commands Kubernetes, the popular container orchestration platform, is known for its complexity as well as its power. Understanding its core concepts and mastering its command line interface can greatly improve efficiency and productivity when managing containerized applications. This article provides a quick overview of key Kubernetes concepts followed by a comprehensive cheat sheet of commands. Key Kubernetes Concepts Pods : The smallest deployable units created and managed by Kubernetes, a Pod is a group of one or more containers (such as Docker containers), with shared storage/network, and a specification for how to run the containers. Services : An abstract way to expose an application running on a set of Pods as a network service. With Kubernetes you don't need to modify your application to use an unfamiliar service discovery mechanism. Deployments : Manage the deployment and scaling of a set of Pods, and provide declarative updat...