Static Pods

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In this section, we will take a look at Static Pods

How do you provide a pod definition file to the kubelet without a kube-apiserver?

You can configure the kubelet to read the pod definition files from a directory on the server designated to store information about pods.

Configure Static Pod

The designated directory can be any directory on the host and the location of that directory is passed in to the kubelet as an option while running the service.
- The option is named as --pod-manifest-path.

Another way to configure static pod

Instead of specifying the option directly in the kubelet.service file, you could provide a path to another config file using the config option, and define the directory path as staticPodPath in the file.

View the static pods

To view the static pods
```
$ docker ps
```

The kubelet can create both kinds of pods - the static pods and the ones from the api server at the same time.

Static Pods - Use Case

Static Pods vs DaemonSets

K8s Reference Docs

https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/static-pod/