set of replics of the application inside its yaml description * template as a set of pods * each pod will have appropriate labels the replica set itself has * ? labels * number of replics replicaset.yaml pod.yaml replicaset.yaml --- apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: ReplicaSet metadata: name: my-replicaset spec: replicas: 2 selector: matchLabels: app: my-app template: metadata: labels: app: my-app spec: containers: - image: quay.io/testing-farm:nginx:1.12 name: nginx ports: - containerPort: 80 ... pod.yaml --- apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: my-pod labels: app: my spec: containers: - image: quay.io/testing-farm:nginx:1.12 name: nginx ports: - containerPort: 80 ...