PodTemplate [glossary]deterministic
A template for creating Pods.
An API object that defines a template for creating [Pods](#gloss:pod). The PodTemplate API is also embedded in API definitions for workload management, such as [Deployment](#gloss:deployment) or [StatefulSets](#gloss:StatefulSet).
Pod templates allow you to define common metadata (such as labels, or a template for the name of a new Pod) as well as to specify a pod's desired state. [Workload management](/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/) controllers use Pod templates (embedded into another object, such as a Deployment or StatefulSet) to define and manage one or more [Pods](#gloss:pod). When there can be multiple Pods based on the same template, these are called [replicas](#gloss:replica). Although you can create a PodTemplate object directly, you rarely need to do so.