website/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/node.md

title	id	date	full_link	short_description	aka	tags
Node	node	2018-04-12	/docs/concepts/architecture/nodes/	A node is a worker machine in Kubernetes.		fundamental

A node is a worker machine in Kubernetes.

A worker node may be a VM or physical machine, depending on the cluster. It has local daemons or services necessary to run {{< glossary_tooltip text="Pods" term_id="pod" >}} and is managed by the control plane. The daemons on a node include {{< glossary_tooltip text="kubelet" term_id="kubelet" >}}, {{< glossary_tooltip text="kube-proxy" term_id="kube-proxy" >}}, and a container runtime implementing the {{< glossary_tooltip text="CRI" term_id="cri" >}} such as {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="docker" >}}.

In early Kubernetes versions, Nodes were called "Minions".