Tim Bannister
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* Tweak glossary definition for Node The services (eg kubelet) that run on a Node are not the kind of Service that the Kubernetes API knows about. Reword accordingly. Also, highlight that Docker is one container runtime and that there are others. * Adopt suggestions from https://github.com/kubernetes/website/pull/14523 Co-Authored-By: Rael Garcia <me@rael.io>
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title, id, date, full_link, short_description, aka, tags
| title | id | date | full_link | short_description | aka | tags | |
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| Node | node | 2018-04-12 | /docs/concepts/architecture/nodes/ | A node is a worker machine in Kubernetes. |
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A node is a worker machine in Kubernetes.
A worker node may be a VM or physical machine, depending on the cluster. It has local daemons or services necessary to run {{< glossary_tooltip text="Pods" term_id="pod" >}} and is managed by the control plane. The daemons on a node include {{< glossary_tooltip text="kubelet" term_id="kubelet" >}}, {{< glossary_tooltip text="kube-proxy" term_id="kube-proxy" >}}, and a container runtime implementing the {{< glossary_tooltip text="CRI" term_id="cri" >}} such as {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="docker" >}}.