KIND

• kind:- the type of resource (e.g., Pod, Deployment, Service)

kind tells Kubernetes what type of object you are creating.

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Major Categories of kind in Kubernetes

We can group them into types of objects:

1. Workload Resources (things that actually run containers)

   • Pod

   • Deployment

   • ReplicaSet

   • StatefulSet

   • DaemonSet

   • Job

   • CronJob

2. Service & Networking Resources

   • Service

   • Ingress

   • Endpoint

   • EndpointSlice

   • NetworkPolicy

3. Configuration & Storage Resources

   • ConfigMap

   • Secret

   • PersistentVolume (PV)

   • PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC)

   • StorageClass

4. Cluster & Namespace Resources

   • Namespace

   • Node

   • ResourceQuota

   • LimitRange

5. Access Control & Security link

   • ServiceAccount

   • Role

   • RoleBinding

   • ClusterRole

   • ClusterRoleBinding

6. Custom Resources

   • CustomResourceDefinition (CRD) → lets you create your own kinds

   • Any CRDs installed by operators (e.g., KafkaCluster, Prometheus, etc.)