Cloud - Technology
Node
One computer or software instance acting as part of a larger system
What's it for?
Provides one individual computer or worker within a larger group of machines.
For example…
The ops team adds two more nodes to the cluster ahead of Black Friday so checkout can handle the spike
A Kubernetes cluster has six worker nodes, each running some of the application's containers.
Think of it like…
If the cluster is a team, a node is one teammate doing their share of the work