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Section: Manifest Basics

Minimal Pod manifest

yaml
yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: demo-pod
  labels:
    app: demo
spec:
  containers:
    - name: app
      image: nginx:1.27
      ports:
        - containerPort: 80
Explanation

A Kubernetes object is typically expressed as YAML with `apiVersion`, `kind`, `metadata`, and `spec`. Pods are usually used directly only for debugging or one-off workloads; Deployments are better for managed application Pods.

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