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It uses a control plane to maintain desired state and worker nodes to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-beginner-s-guide-to-kubernetes-ucyxczyo1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/UCYXczYO1.png og:image:alt: A Beginner's Guide to Kubernetes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Beginner's Guide to Kubernetes **[MetalBear](https://daily.dev/sources/metalbear)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Kubernetes is a declarative system for running and managing containerized applications. It uses a control plane to maintain desired state and worker nodes to run containers. Core resources include Pods (smallest deployable units), Deployments (manage Pod replicas), Services (stable network endpoints), ConfigMaps and Secrets (configuration management), Volumes (persistent storage), and Namespaces (logical isolation). You can practice locally using tools like minikube or k3d with kubectl commands to apply YAML manifests and manage resources. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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