What is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes?

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Pod, which wraps one or more containers with shared networking and storage — A Pod is the smallest deployable unit — not a container. Kubernetes doesn't manage containers directly; it wraps them in Pods that provide shared networking and storage.

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Container, which is the basic execution unit managed directly by Kubernetes

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Deployment, which defines the desired state for a group of running instances

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Node, which is the smallest schedulable unit in the cluster architecture

What is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes?

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