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CONTAINER-ORCHESTRATION4 MIN READ

Sort the Workload Controllers

Classify common workload scenarios by the Kubernetes controller semantics they need.

sort-buckets score-chips comparison Sort each workload by the controller promise it needs. Deployment StatefulSet Job or CronJob DaemonSet Stateless checkout API with interchangeable replicas behind a Service Frontend web service that can replace any Pod with an equivalent Pod Database members that need stable names and persistent volume claims Search shards where shard-0 must keep its identity after rescheduling Nightly customer import that should run to completion once per schedule One-time schema backfill that should finish successfully and then stop Log collector that should run on every Linux worker node Node networking agent that must be present wherever Pods can…

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