[rad_gruchalski]

> without the pseudocontroller

I am making an assumption. I assume that you mean the deployment. The deployment is responsible for individual pods. If a pod goes away, the deployment brings a new pod in. The deployment controls individual pods.

To answer your question: yes, you can simply create pods without the deployment. But then you are fully responsible for their lifecycle and failures. The deployment makes your life easier.

[zrail]

I was referring to the pod running the kubectl loop. As far as I can tell (I could be wrong! I haven't experimented yet) the script is relying on the primary Mosquitto pod's ready state, which is also what a Service relies on by default.