A pod is the smallest unit that you can create or deploy in Kubernetes. A pod encapsulates one or more containers, storage resources (volumes), a unique IP address, and configurations that specify how the containers run.

Prerequisites

If you do not use a system-created namespace, you need to create a custom namespace. For specific instructions, see Creating namespaces.

Procedure

In the left navigation bar, click Cluster.

In the left navigation bar, click Workload > Pod.

Click Create with Yaml to specify the parameters of the pod.

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: hello-pod # The name of the new pod.
namespace: namespace-a # The namespace where the pod is deployed, such as the created namespace.
spec:
containers:
- name: hello-pod # The name of the container.
image: nginx # The image address and version for deploying the container.
ports:
- containerPort: 8080 # The container port.

metadata

Parameter
Description
name
The name of the custom pod.
namespace
The namespace of the pod that is to be deployed, e.g., the namespace mentioned in the Prerequisites.

containers

Parameter
Description
name
The name of the custom container.
image
The image address and version for deploying the container, such as nginx.
containerPort
The container port number.

Click Confirm to create the pod.

Operation result

After you create a pod, you can view it in the pod list.

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Parameter	Description
name	The name of the custom pod.
namespace	The namespace of the pod that is to be deployed, e.g., the namespace mentioned in the Prerequisites.