<p>When I look/list the pods in kube-system namespace, I can see coredns pods, kube-apiserver pods, kube-proxy pods etc but NOT the kubelet pods.<br />
So just wondering why I am not able to see kubelet. I even tried <code>kubectl.exe get pods   -owide --all-namespaces</code> but still NO trace of kubelet.</p>
<p>I just want to look at the runtime args passed to the kubelet for some other reason, but I am not able to find it in the first place. Any suggestion on how to find kubelet in the cluster.</p>
<p><strong>Edit -</strong> As @jabbson clarified - <code>kubelet is an agent, a binary/service on your k8s node</code><br />
Could someone help me find this service/binary/process on windows 10. Basically my installation is docker desktop with inbuilt minikube cluster - more details on my installed version are present on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69815941/how-to-access-docker-desktop-minikube-cluster-from-local-machine">this</a> post. <strong>Note</strong>: i could not find kubelet in windows services or in the list of running process.</p>

samshers
<p>Kubelet is not a pod, instead kubelet is an agent, a binary/service on your k8s node. This binary talks to the apiserver and ensures that the required containers are running on its node and that they are healthy.</p>
<p>Starting with Kubernetes version 1.11, kubelet &amp; kube-proxy can be run as native Windows Services.</p>
