Config, Secrets & Storage

The paperwork clipped to a shipping container, and the warehouse space that keeps existing after the ship that used it has sailed.

Before you start. The Harbor Master (pods, deployments, services) showed you that Kubernetes can kill any pod and start an identical one in its place, unasked. This lesson covers what has to survive that: the settings a pod reads on the way up, the passwords it should never carry in the open, and the data left behind when Self-Healing & Autoscaling‘s replacement logic acts.