Static website, mission 1 of 7
Your first pod
beginner, about 5 minutes, in the Kubernetes Simulator
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Free in your browser, nothing to install.
The briefing
A pod is the smallest thing Kubernetes runs: one or more containers that share a network address and are scheduled onto a node together. You rarely make pods by hand in production — but every higher-level object ends up making pods, so this is where to start.
kubectl run NAME --image=IMAGE asks the API server for a pod. It answers straight away; the scheduler then picks a node, and that node's kubelet pulls the image and starts the container. Watch the pod move from Pending to ContainerCreating to Running.
What you'll do
- Run a pod called web from the image nginx:1.27
- Check on it with kubectl get pods
- Bonus star: Find out which node the scheduler put it on
The mission checks the cluster, not your keystrokes: any fix that works, passes.
More Static website missions
- 1. Your first pod
- 2. Pods that heal
- 3. Give it an address
- 4. Look inside
- 5. Launch day
- 6. Ship v2
- 7. The 3am page