What methods can be used to manage the lifecycle and settings of Kubernetes pods?

Management of the lifecycle and settings of a Kubernetes pod can be performed using the following methods:

• YAML/JSON manifests — describe the pod configuration, which is applied via kubectl apply.
• kubectl — command for creating, updating, deleting pods, and viewing their status (kubectl create, kubectl delete, kubectl get pods).
• Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet — controllers that manage the creation and updating of pods, providing declarative management.
• Liveness and readiness probes — configurations in the manifest to check the pod's health and manage restarts.
• ConfigMap and Secret — for passing configuration data and secrets to the pod.
• Helm — package manager for managing complex applications and their configurations.

Example of a simple pod manifest:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: example-pod
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx:latest
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80