Revision poster: choose the object by identity, placement and lifetime.

The top row compares the five objects. The middle row shows ownership. The bottom row shows the settings you tune most often.

1. 1Deployment: interchangeable Pods, rolling updates, rollback.
2. 2StatefulSet: stable names, own storage, ordered start, partition canary.
3. 3DaemonSet: one Pod per node.
4. 4Job and CronJob: run to completion, once or on a schedule.
5. 5maxSurge adds capacity first; maxUnavailable limits loss; readiness gates progress.
6. 6Init containers run first in order; native sidecars wrap the app lifecycle.

Pick the object by identity, placement and lifetime.