Kubernetes Software Components Architecture Diagram

For a recent innovative project we were able to work with Kubernetes 1.3 as tool for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. In our case (micro)services.

A lot of documentation is available, but I was missing an as-complete-as-possible architecture picture of all components within k8s. Or sometimes the link between certain components was not shown, or a related but very relevant component for the system was missing (e.g. Flannel). Below is the result of this: a full components architecture diagram of all components in Kubernetes. It was hard to fit everything in, but I think I have everything for the level of detail I wanted to capture.

The following components can be found in the diagram: kubectl, etcd, master node, worker node, controller manager, scheduler, etcd-watch, API server, Docker, kubeproxy, deployments, container, pod, service, kubelet, label selectors, config maps, secrets, daemon sets, jobs, flannel (for subnet), client app accessing the services.

Let me know in the comments if I'm missing anything! 😊

Inspiration for this diagram came from (amongst other things):

• Introduction to Kubernetes
• Kubernetes Community Resources