Kubernetes Object Hierarchy: A Simple Mental Model

Kubernetes has a lot of objects. Don't think of them as a flat list. That's the wrong mental model. The right one is this: Kubernetes is a declarative control system. You describe the state you want, and a set of objects — each with a narrow job — cooperate to make reality match. Once you see how those objects fit together, the rest of Kubernetes is mostly details. Note: this post covers Kubernetes objects — the resources you define in YAML. The control plane components that make these objects w