K8S YAML structure

What is YAML

Yet Another Markup Language

Kubernetes YAML have below structure

apiVersion:
kind:
metadata:
spec:

apiVersion:

Kubernetes have different versions of API for each objects. We discuss about API in detail in upcoming sessions. For now , lets keep it simple as possible.

Pod is one of the kind of object which is part of core v1 API So for a Pod, we usually see apiVersion: v1

kind:

As explained above we specify the kind of API object with kind: field.

metadata:

We have seen the use of metadata earlier.

As the name implies , we usually store name of object and labels in metadata field.

spec:

Object specification will go hear. The specification will depend on the kind and apiVersion we use

Exploring Pod spec

Lets write a Pod specification YAML

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
 name: mywebserver
 labels:
  app: nginx
  env: dev
spec:
 containers:
 - name: nginx
   image:nginx:latest

In above specification , you can see that we have specified name and labels in matadata field.

The spec starts with cotainer field and we have added a container specification under it.

You might be wondering , how can we memories all these options. In reality , you don’t have to.

We will discuss about it in next session.