Static pods are created by kubelet. I don't see a kubelet running in control p . . .

tomk8slearn:
Static pods are created by kubelet. I don’t see a kubelet running in control plane but I can create static pods there?

controlplane $ kubectl get pods -n kube-system
NAME                                   READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
coredns-f9fd979d6-9s49v                1/1     Running   0          99m
coredns-f9fd979d6-mvzn8                1/1     Running   0          99m
etcd-controlplane                      1/1     Running   0          99m
kube-apiserver-controlplane            1/1     Running   0          99m
kube-controller-manager-controlplane   1/1     Running   0          99m
kube-flannel-ds-amd64-2l2tw            1/1     Running   1          99m
kube-flannel-ds-amd64-h64f2            1/1     Running   0          99m
kube-proxy-5md5z                       1/1     Running   0          99m
kube-proxy-99zj5                       1/1     Running   0          99m
kube-scheduler-controlplane            1/1     Running   0          99m
my-scheduler-controlplane              1/1     Running   0          46s
controlplane $ ps -efj | grep kubelet
root      1041    14  1040    14  0 21:23 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto kubelet


controlplane $ ssh 172.17.0.22
root@node01:~# ps -efj | grep kubelet
root      1439     1  1439  1439  2 19:44 ?        00:02:02 /usr/bin/kubelet --bootstrap-kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/bootstrap-kubelet.conf --kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf --config=/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml --network-plugin=cni --pod-infra-container-image=<http://k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.2|k8s.gcr.io/pause:3.2>
root     30555 30479 30554 30479  0 21:24 pts/1    00:00:00 grep kubelet
root@node01:~# 

Mohamed Ayman:
I see it’s already running as a service not a pod.

Mohamed Ayman:
Static Pods are always bound to one https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubelet|Kubelet on a specific node.

Hinodeya learn:
If you want to check the manifest of static pod go there /etc/kubernetes/manifest or another path corresponding of your personnal install :wink: