Under the hood

Now we have learned a little about the functionality that Kubernetes provides to us, the user, let's go a little deeper and look at the components that Kubernetes uses to implement these features. Kubernetes makes this task a little easier for us by having a microservice architecture, so we can look at the function of each component in a certain degree of isolation.

We will get our hands dirty over the next few chapters by actually deploying and configuring these components ourselves. However for now, let's start by getting a basic understanding of the function of each of these components by looking at the following diagram: