A node is a VM hosted on a platform or a server. The node is the component that provides the compute power to the Kubernetes cluster. It is also possible to have a single node master and worker setup, where the master and worker are the same node.

The following diagram illustrates the Kubernetes components, such as the Kubernetes master that connects to the different nodes:

The diagram shows a Kubernetes engine with six VMs and two clusters. Each cluster contains three VMs. Kubernetes resides on the VMs. You can use Kubernetes to determine the VMs to deploy the Big Data Management containers based on storage and compute capability.