Kubelet

Kubelet is responsible for running containers on the node

/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf
/var/log/kubelet.log

Kubelet listen on port 10250

[kubelet-check] The HTTP call equal to 'curl -sSL http://localhost:10248/healthz' failed with error: Get http://localhost:10248/healthz: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:10248: connect: connection refused.

Installation

• snap install kubelet --classic (snap stop kubelet.daemon or snap start kubelet.daemon)

Commands

systemctl start snap.kubelet.daemon.service
systemctl stop snap.kubelet.daemon.service

 snap start kubelet.daemon
 Started.

Networking

The Container Network Interface (CNI) plugin is selected by passing kubelet the --network-plugin=cni

Related terms

• liveness probes: (livenessProbe)
• readiness probes: (readinessProbe)
• systemctl stop snap.kubelet.daemon.service

Activities

• CKA: Understand LivenessProves and ReadinessProbes

See also

• Kubernetes: distributions, tools, CKA, CKS, Kubernetes interfaces: CSI, CNI, installation, workloads, networking, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, Cloud services: EKS, GKE, TKE, DKS, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes Finalizers, logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind:, Kubernetes namespaces, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors, CoreDNS, CRI, Kubernetes Topology Manager, Kubernetes governance: (SIG, KEP), Kustomize, controllers, ReadinessProbe, LivenessProbe, KOPS, K9s, Kui, k3s, ImagePullBackOff, PDB, EndPoints, Kots, metadata, Karpenter, Replicated.com, Kubernetes Authenticating, Kubernetes timeline, Changelog/Versions, service accounts, Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle, Kubernetes Conformance Certified, Kubernetes backup, Kubernetes Pod Security Admission, tEKS, Kubernetes events, Kubernetes ports, Kubernetes policies, Connect, addons, DoKC, Kubernetes control plane, Kubernetes Federation, Kubernetes info, Kubetest2, Sidecar (Kubernetes)