You might be interested in this:
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
It probably won't answer the "why" (although any LLM can answer that nowadays), but it will definitely answer the "how".
I actually took the time to read the tutorial and found it helpful.
Thanks for taking the time to share the walk through.
That's nice but I was looking more for a simple implementation of the concept from first principles.
I mean an understanding from the view of the internals and not so much the user perspective.
This is actually cool, thanks.