title: What is hyperkube?
body: <p>I am trying to setup kubernetes in aws and following the guides at <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/getting-started-guides/docker-multinode" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/master/docs/getting-started-guides/docker-multinode</a></p>
  
  <p>I couldn't understand what is meant by hyperkube. Can someone please explain to me what it is and how does it work?</p>
  
  <p>And another question I have is while running the command </p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo docker run \
      --volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
      --volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
      --volume=/dev:/dev \
      --volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:rw \
      --volume=/var/lib/kubelet/:/var/lib/kubelet:rw \
      --volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw \
      --net=host \
      --privileged=true \
      --pid=host \
      -d \
      gcr.io/google_containers/hyperkube:v${K8S_VERSION} \
      /hyperkube kubelet \
        --api-servers=http://localhost:8080 \
        --v=2 --address=0.0.0.0 --enable-server \
        --hostname-override=127.0.0.1 \
        --config=/etc/kubernetes/manifests-multi \
        --cluster-dns=10.0.0.10 \
        --cluster-domain=cluster.local
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it is starting the one pod by default. From the command documentation, it looks like it is getting the pod manifest from the <code>--config=/etc/kubernetes/manifests-multi</code> attribute. But this directory is not present in my host. can somebody please tell me from where it is getting this pod manifest?</p>