<p>In almost every article, it is mentioned that pod is the smallest unit of Kubernetes?</p>
<p>What does it mean? What is the meaning of smallest?</p>

Healthy Bowl
<p>Smallest unit in that context means &quot;smallest deployable thing&quot;.</p>
<p>Technically a container is an even smaller unit because a pod can contain multiple containers, but you can not deploy a single container, only a pod with one container. That's why the pod is considered the smallest unit in kubernetes.</p>
