This chapter will cover the various types of workloads that Kubernetes supports. We will cover deployments for applications that are regularly updated and long-running. We will also revisit the topics of application updates and gradual rollouts using Deployments. In addition, we will look at jobs used for short-running tasks. We will look at DaemonSets, which allow programs to be run on every node in our Kubernetes cluster. In case you noticed, we won't look into StatefulSets yet in this chapter but we'll investigate them in the next, when we look at store and how K8s helps you manage storage and stateful applications on your cluster.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Deployments
• Application scaling with Deployments
• Application updates with Deployments
• Jobs
• DaemonSets