A container cluster consists of at least one cluster master and many worker machines called nodes. These master and node machines have the responsibility to run the Kubernetes cluster orchestration system.
For Kubernetes Engine, a container cluster can be considered the foundation. On top of a cluster runs the containerized applications.
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