# Create static Pods — Filesystem-hosted static Pod manifest

> Manifests are standard Pod definitions in JSON or YAML format in a specific directory.

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## Knowledge

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Manifests are standard Pod definitions in JSON or YAML format in a specific directory. Use the staticPodPath: field in the kubelet configuration file, which periodically scans the directory and creates/deletes static Pods as YAML/JSON files appear/disappear there. Note that the kubelet will ignore files starting with dots when scanning the specified directory.

The kubelet processes all files not starting with a dot in the static Pod directory — there is no filtering by file extension. For example, if you create a backup of a manifest by running cp kube-apiserver.yaml kube-apiserver.yaml.backup, the kubelet will read both files and attempt to create a static Pod from each. When two files define a Pod with the same name, the resulting behavior is undefined and can cause the backup's outdated spec to silently take effect instead of the current manifest. If you do create a backup, store it outside the static Pod directory (for example, in /etc/kubernetes/backup/).

For example, this is how to start a simple web server as a static Pod

Choose a node where you want to run the static Pod. In this example, it's my-node1.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   ssh my-node1
```

Choose a directory, say /etc/kubernetes/manifests and place a web server Pod definition there, for example /etc/kubernetes/manifests/static-web.yaml

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
   # Run this command on the node where kubelet is running
   mkdir -p /etc/kubernetes/manifests/
   cat &lt;&lt;EOF &gt;/etc/kubernetes/manifests/static-web.yaml
   apiVersion: v1
   kind: Pod
   metadata:
     name: static-web
     labels:
       role: myrole
   spec:
     containers:
       - name: web
         image: nginx
         ports:
           - name: web
             containerPort: 80
             protocol: TCP
   EOF
```

Configure the kubelet on that node to set a staticPodPath value in the kubelet configuration file. See Set Kubelet Parameters Via A Configuration File for more information.

An alternative and deprecated method is to configure the kubelet on that node to look for static Pod manifests locally, using a command line argument. To use the deprecated approach, start the kubelet with the --pod-manifest-path=/etc/kubernetes/manifests/ argument.

Restart the kubelet. On Fedora, you would run …

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