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Static Pods come from node filesystem and are managed only by kubelet; not stored in etcd.
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Static Pods are managed by kubelet directly — defined as YAML files in a host directory (/etc/kubernetes/manifests). kubelet creates and monitors them without the API server — they survive even if etcd is down. Control plane components (kube-apiserver, etcd, controller-manager, scheduler) are typically static Pods. Normal Pods require the API server and are scheduler-managed.
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