Understanding NetApp Cloud Central and Kubernetes information
As you work with cloud services, NetApp Cloud Central, and Kubernetes clusters, you might find it helpful to understand the process used to build the different types of clusters and understand Kubernetes terminology.
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Cloud Central accounts
Each NetApp HCI system that has cloud services enabled is associated with a NetApp Cloud Central account. A Cloud Central account is a container for your systems and the workspaces in which you deploy cloud services on NetApp HCI.
What happens behind the scenes
Behind the scenes, NetApp HCI creates a bootstrap agent that establishes an encrypted communication tunnel to the NetApp Kubernetes Service control plane and creates a service cluster.
Kubernetes pods, volumes, and projects
Cloud services on NetApp HCI involves pods, volumes, and projects that you create and manage by using NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS). Persistent volumes are managed by Trident software.