The first installment in a series about the Kubernetes API introduces kubespy, a tool designed to provide real-time insights into the status changes of Kubernetes objects, particularly Pods, as they are deployed and managed within a cluster. Highlighting the functionality of kubespy, the post describes a step-by-step process of deploying a simple nginx Pod using either Pulumi or kubectl, and details the four distinct status updates observed: writing the Pod definition to etcd, scheduling the Pod on a node, creating the Pod by pulling the container image and setting up necessary configurations, and finally marking the Pod as Running once the container is successfully initialized. The post also encourages experimentation with kubespy by inducing errors and exploring different configurations, while hinting at deeper complexities such as the precise meaning of a Pod's "Running" status and the influence of settings like restartPolicy, which will be explored in future posts.