What is the difference between a pod and a deployment?

Question

I have been creating pods with type:deployment but I see that some documentation uses type:pod, more specifically the documentation for multi-conta

Answer 1

Both Pod and Deployment are full-fledged objects in the Kubernetes API. Deployment manages creating Pods by means of ReplicaSets. What it boils down to is that Deployment will create Pods with spec taken from the template. It is rather unlikely that you will ever need to create Pods directly for a production use-case.