Kubernetes Pod Practice Questions & Solutions

July 18, 2026 by [email protected]

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🎯 Introduction

☸️ What is a Pod?

A Pod is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes.

Every application running inside Kubernetes runs inside one or more Pods.

Think of a Pod as a wrapper around one or more containers.

                 Kubernetes Cluster
                         │
                  ┌────────────┐
                  │    Node    │
                  └────────────┘
                         │
         ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
         │              Pod                │
         │                                 │
         │  ┌──────────┐   ┌──────────┐    │
         │  │ Container│   │Container │    │
         │  │  Nginx   │   │  Redis   │    │
         │  └──────────┘   └──────────┘    │
         └─────────────────────────────────┘

⚙️ Prerequisites

✔ Kubernetes Cluster

✔ kubectl Installed

✔ Basic Linux Knowledge

✔ Terminal Access

Verify Cluster

kubectl get nodes

Expected Output

NAME            STATUS     ROLES
master-node     Ready      control-plane
worker-node     Ready      worker

Assignment 1

Exercise 1

🔍 Check Number of Pods

Command

kubectl get pods

or

kubectl get pods -n default

To count Pods

kubectl get pods --no-headers | wc -l

📖 Explanation

🟢 Lists Pods inside the default namespace.