How to use Labels Effectively In Kubernetes

Labels plays major role in kubernetes cluster for interlinking the container, pods and services. following are the some of the best practices you need to follow while creating an labels.

1. Choose Meaningful Labels: The labels should consists of meaingful names while assign them to any object they should represent the purpose of the object which you are creagting and also you should not use key or reserved word in kubernets for the labels. examples of labels you can use myapp: prod-environment like it represents this pod belongs to production environment.
2. Maintain Consistent: The labels which you are creating in the kubernets cluster make sure they are consistent across the cluster. This will helps you to manage the resources easily.
3. Unique label: The labels my be very unique from one another other wise it will creates the conflicts between the services and pods and nodes.
4. Use Labels For Scaling: Group the certain group of pods under the same service and by using the labels you scale all the pods at a time instead of managing them separately.
5. Use Labels To Organize: Labels can be used for grouping the pods with the same functionality.

An open-source container management platform called Kubernetes automates the deployment, scaling, descaling, and load balancing of containers (also called a container orchestration tool). It was created by Google in Golang and has a sizable community as a result of that. Google eventually donated it to CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation). In essence, deployment is a layer of abstraction above pods. It resembles a design plan for pods.