Platform & DevOps·The orchestrator's model of the world
the log collector appears on every node automatically, including the one that joined the cluster four minutes ago.
DaemonSet
Also calleddaemon set, per-node workload, node agent
A workload type that runs exactly one copy on every node, or every node matching a selector. It is how node-level infrastructure — log shippers, metrics agents, network plugins, storage drivers — is deployed, and it scales with the cluster rather than with traffic. Its capacity is easy to forget: each one takes CPU and memory from every node, so a fleet of five agents can quietly consume a meaningful fraction of what you are paying for.