Control Plane

The Control Plane is the brain of Kubernetes.

It manages the entire cluster.

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• Decides where pods run
• Monitors cluster health
• Ensures desired state is always maintained
• Handles scaling and recovery

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You define:

Run 3 replicas of nginx

Control Plane:

• Creates pods
• Assigns them to nodes
• Restarts them if they fail

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Control Plane does NOT run your apps. It only manages them.