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date |
short_description |
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tags |
| PodTemplate |
pod-template |
2024-10-13 |
A template for creating Pods.
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An API object that defines a template for creating {{< glossary_tooltip text="Pods" term_id="pod" >}}.
The PodTemplate API is also embedded in API definitions for workload management, such as
{{< glossary_tooltip text="Deployment" term_id="deployment" >}} or
{{< glossary_tooltip text="StatefulSets" term_id="StatefulSet" >}}.
Pod templates allow you to define common metadata (such as labels, or a template for the name of a
new Pod) as well as to specify a pod's desired state.
Workload management controllers use Pod templates
(embedded into another object, such as a Deployment or StatefulSet)
to define and manage one or more {{< glossary_tooltip text="Pods" term_id="pod" >}}.
When there can be multiple Pods based on the same template, these are called
{{< glossary_tooltip term_id="replica" text="replicas" >}}.
Although you can create a PodTemplate object directly, you rarely need to do so.