What resources allow creating containers using pods in Kubernetes?

In Kubernetes, containers are created inside Pods. A Pod is the smallest deployable unit that can contain one or more containers.

Resource types that allow creating Pods with containers:

• Pod — the basic resource that directly describes one or more containers.

• Deployment — manages the creation and updating of Pods, providing declarative management of the state.

• StatefulSet — for managing the state and order of Pods with persistent storage.

• DaemonSet — ensures a Pod runs on each node of the cluster.

• Job and CronJob — for running Pods that perform tasks once or on a schedule.

All these resources create and manage Pods, inside which containers run. Thus, containers are always inside Pods, and various controllers (Deployment, StatefulSet, etc.) ensure the lifecycle management of these Pods.