### Main points - is present in all nodes. - is the *agent* of kubernetes. - can be referred as the caption of the worker nodes. ![[Pasted image 20250206065718.png]] ### What it does? 1. registers a node 2. creates a pod 3. monitors nodes and pods #### Subtasks - mounting a volume - probing pods and reporting back to [[apiserver]]. ### kube-proxy - is a [[Workloads#DaemonSet]]. Which means all nodes have a copy of `kube-proxy` in them. - define and monitors the `IP` of each server by `itables` and `ipvs`. - handles the request to the selected pod by specific `itable-rules`. - does the load-balancing of services.