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title: "How-to-Kube: Pod Basics"
description: In this segment, Fairwinds SRE, Kim Schlesinger, shows you how to create a pod using the nginx image, view the yaml, and delete the pod.
---

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# [How-to-Kube: Pod Basics](https://www.fairwinds.com/blog/how-to-kube-pod-basics)

 Written by [Kim Schlesinger](https://www.fairwinds.com/blog/author/kim-schlesinger) | Aug 26, 2020 12:02:28 PM

In this segment, Fairwinds SRE, Kim Schlesinger, shows you how to create a pod using the nginx image, view the yaml, and delete the pod.

 

 

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