Static pod

CKA v1.35 · Cluster Architecture, Installation and Configuration (25%) → "Create and manage Kubernetes clusters using kubeadm" ALSO: Troubleshooting (30%) — "Troubleshoot cluster components" Target time: 10 minutes

Static pods are run directly by a node's kubelet from a manifest directory — no scheduler, no API-server involvement. Every control-plane component on a kubeadm cluster works this way.

On node muscle-worker:

1. Create a static pod named node-agent running busybox:1.36 with command sh -c 'sleep 3600'.
2. It must appear in the API as a mirror pod in the default namespace and be Running.

Then answer, by inspecting the cluster (the grader checks this):

3. The mirror pod's name must carry the node suffix, and it must be owned by the Node object — not by a ReplicaSet or the scheduler.

Get a shell with: docker exec -it muscle-worker bash