Azure Kubernetes Service Components

This diagram shows you the key components and concepts in a Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. In AKS, nodes (virtual machines) of same configuration are groups into pools.

• A node is a virtual machine in the cluster.
• A deployment represents identical pods. It defines the number of pods replica to deploy.
• A pod represents a single instance of your application. Usually one pod has one container though one pod can have multiple containers.