Importance of labeling and annotating your Kubernetes objects

Ishan Liyanage
2 min readDec 5, 2020

Labels and Selectors are a standard method to group things together.

Lets say you have different objects/things and you want filter them based on different criteria.

If we have labeled those objects, you can easily filter them based on different criteria such as their color, type, shape etc..

Even you can use multiple criteria to fine tune your filter.

In other words, labels are properties attached to each item. So you add properties to each item…

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Ishan Liyanage

Passionate Technical Lead, Senior Software Developer and free and open source software advocate. Based in Singapore.