# Deploy to Kubernetes — Describing apps using Kubernetes YAML

> All containers in Kubernetes are scheduled as pods, which are groups of co-located containers that share some resources.

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All containers in Kubernetes are scheduled as pods, which are groups of co-located containers that share some resources. Furthermore, in a realistic application you almost never create individual pods. Instead, most of your workloads are scheduled as deployments, which are scalable groups of pods maintained automatically by Kubernetes. Lastly, all Kubernetes objects can and should be described in manifests called Kubernetes YAML files. These YAML files describe all the components and configurations of your Kubernetes app, and can be used to create and destroy your app in any Kubernetes environment.

You already wrote a basic Kubernetes YAML file in the Orchestration overview part of this tutorial. Now, you can write a slightly more sophisticated YAML file to run and manage your Todo app, the container getting-started image created in Part 2 of the Quickstart tutorial. Place the following in a file called bb.yaml

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```yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: bb-demo
  namespace: default
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      bb: web
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        bb: web
    spec:
      containers:
        - name: bb-site
          image: getting-started
          imagePullPolicy: Never
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: bb-entrypoint
  namespace: default
spec:
  type: NodePort
  selector:
    bb: web
  ports:
    - port: 3000
      targetPort: 3000
      nodePort: 30001
```

In this Kubernetes YAML file, there are two objects, separated by the

A Deployment, describing a scalable group of identical pods. In this case, you'll get just one replica, or copy of your pod, and that pod (which is described under the template: key) has just one container in it, based off of your getting-started image from the previous step in this tutorial. A NodePort service, which will route traffic from port 30001 on your host to port 3000 inside the pods it routes to, allowing you to reach your Todo app from the network.

Also, notice that while Kubernetes YAML can appear long and complicated at first, it almost always follows the same pattern …

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