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🧭 Glossary

The Kubernetes words used across these docs, in one line each.

Cluster​

The group of machines that runs your apps.

Node​

One machine in the cluster.

Pod​

A running copy of an app.

Namespace​

A named area of the cluster, often one per team or app.

CrashLoopBackOff​

A pod keeps starting, failing and restarting. See how kwatch reports it in Kubernetes failure coverage.

OOMKilled​

A pod used more memory than allowed and was stopped.

RBAC​

Kubernetes permissions. It decides what kwatch may read. See RBAC and deployment security.

Helm​

A package manager for Kubernetes, an alternative way to install. See Installation.

CRD​

A custom resource definition, an extra kind of object that a tool adds to the cluster. kwatch adds one, KwatchConfig.