Almost all of the system services are running as Kubernetes objects. Kube DNS is used for deployments. Dashboard, Storage Controller, and nginx Ingress are a few of the system Pods that are currently running in our k3d cluster.

Still, we haven’t seen them yet. Even though we executed kubectl get all quite a few times, there was not a trace of any of those objects. How can that be? Will we see them now if we list all the objects?

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kubectl get all

Get everything in cluster

The output shows only the objects we created. There are go-demo-2 Deployments, ReplicaSets, Services, and Pods. The only system object we can observe is the kubernetes Service.

Judging from the current information, if we limit our observations to Pods, our cluster can be described through the following illustration.