Is Container a Pod?

A Pod (as in a pod of whales or pea pod) is a group of one or more containers, with shared storage and network resources, and a specification for how to run the containers. A Pod's contents are always co-located and co-scheduled, and run in a shared context.

Is a pod not a container?

3.1 Resource Management Introduction

The smallest snap-in for kubernetes is a pod, not a container, so containers can only be placed in a Pod, whereas kubernetes generally does not directly manage a Pod, but rather manages it through a Pod controller.

Is a Kubernetes pod a container?

Unlike other systems you may have used in the past, Kubernetes doesn't run containers directly; instead it wraps one or more containers into a higher-level structure called a pod. Any containers in the same pod will share the same resources and local network. Pods are used as the unit of replication in Kubernetes. ...