What resources can be used to create pods in Kubernetes?

• Deployment
• StatefulSet
• DaemonSet
• ReplicaSet
• Job
• CronJob
• Manually, using kubectl apply -f pod.yaml or kubectl run
• Custom Resources, defining their own controllers that create pods

# Example of creating a pod via Pod manifest
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: my-pod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: my-container
    image: nginx:latest

# Example of creating pods via Deployment
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: my-deployment
spec:
  replicas: 3 # Number of pods
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: my-app
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: my-app
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: my-container
        image: nginx:latest