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There are a few core Kubernetes resources that you'll interact with as a developer. Kubernetes includes controllers to manage all these resources for you, so all you need to do is declare which resources you need to run your services.
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Pods
Pods are the core compute resource in a Kubernetes cluster. A pod is a tightly coupled group of containers working together to provide one unit of work. Some pods may consist of only one container. One example of a pod would be a single instance of a web worker responding to user web requests. In order to fulfill production traffic, you would run several web pods. A pod is similar to a dyno from Heroku.
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