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What is the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes?
- APod, which wraps one or more containers with shared networking and storage
- BContainer, which is the basic execution unit managed directly by Kubernetes
- CDeployment, which defines the desired state for a group of running instances
- DNode, which is the smallest schedulable unit in the cluster architecture
Why this is the answer
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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