Awesome! Let’s break it down **from the very basics** and then do hands-on practice with `Pods`, `Nodes`, and `Containers` in Kubernetes.

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## ☸️ 1. Kubernetes Core Concepts

### 🧱 Nodes
- A **Node** is a **virtual machine (VM)** or **physical server**.
- It runs the Kubernetes components: **kubelet**, **container runtime**, and **kube-proxy**.
- It hosts **Pods**.

> In Minikube, your laptop acts as a single **Node** cluster.

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### 📦 Pods
- A **Pod** is the **smallest unit in Kubernetes**.
- A Pod wraps **one or more containers** (usually just one).
- All containers in a Pod **share the same IP, storage, and network**.

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### 🐳 Containers
- **Containers** (like Docker) run inside Pods.
- They contain your application, like `nginx`, `tomcat`, `springboot`, etc.

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## 🔧 Hands-on Practice

Let’s try everything using `kubectl` + `minikube`.

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### ✅ Step 1: Start Minikube (if not already)
```bash
minikube start
```

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### ✅ Step 2: Create a Pod (manually)

Here, we’ll create a **single Pod** that runs the **nginx** container.

```bash
kubectl run my-nginx-pod --image=nginx
```

> This creates a Pod named `my-nginx-pod` running one container with the image `nginx`.

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### ✅ Step 3: View the Pod and Node

```bash
kubectl get pods
kubectl describe pod my-nginx-pod
```

Check the node it’s running on:
```bash
kubectl get pod my-nginx-pod -o wide
```

You’ll see it running on the Minikube node.

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### ✅ Step 4: Exec into the Pod (like SSH)

```bash
kubectl exec -it my-nginx-pod -- /bin/bash
```

Inside the container:
```bash
apt update && apt install curl -y
curl localhost
```

Then exit:
```bash
exit
```

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### ✅ Step 5: Delete the Pod

```bash
kubectl delete pod my-nginx-pod
```

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### ✅ BONUS: View the Node

```bash
kubectl get nodes
kubectl describe node
```

You'll see CPU, memory, pods running, etc.

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## 🔄 Summary:

| Concept   | Meaning                              |
|-----------|---------------------------------------|
| **Node**  | Machine (VM or physical) that runs Pods |
| **Pod**   | Smallest unit, contains containers     |
| **Container** | The actual app/runtime (like nginx) |

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Let me know if you want to:
- Deploy a multi-container pod
- Visualize with a diagram
- Go next to Deployments & ReplicaSets

Ready when you are! 💪