Pods are a Kubernetes concept which maps to one or more docker containers running on the same host. Typically in a fabric8 context this maps to a single container.
Though a pod abstraction allows you to co-locate multiple containers together on a single box. e.g. a httpd container and 2 tomcat containers; or a wildfly and a redis container etc.
The pod JSON defines:
The containers generated by a pod can have labels so that containers can be filtered to create Services.