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The control plane, worker nodes, and core components that make a cluster behave like one programmable system.
A Kubernetes cluster is not a single daemon. It is a small distributed operating system with an API, a database, reconcilers, and agents on each machine.
The control plane is the brain and ledger of the cluster. It accepts desired state, stores it, and runs loops that push reality toward that state.
A node is useful only if kubelet can keep reporting health and can ask the container runtime to run Pods.
Kubernetes works because controllers keep comparing desired state with observed state. That loop is the product.
The core cluster is intentionally incomplete. DNS, ingress, metrics, storage, and policy are choices you compose.