Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration engine for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. The open source project is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Understand Kubernetes
Learn about Kubernetes and its fundamental concepts.
- Why Kubernetes?
- Components of a cluster
- The Kubernetes API
- Objects In Kubernetes
- Containers
- Workloads and Pods
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Try Kubernetes
Follow tutorials to learn how to deploy applications in Kubernetes.
- Hello Minikube
- Walkthrough the basics
- Stateless Example: PHP Guestbook with Redis
- Stateful Example: Wordpress with Persistent Volumes
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Set up a K8s cluster
Get Kubernetes running based on your resources and needs.
- Learning environment
- Production environment
- Install the kubeadm setup tool
- Securing a cluster
- kubeadm command reference
Set up Kubernetes
Learn how to use Kubernetes
Look up common tasks and how to perform them using a short sequence of steps.
- kubectl Cheat Sheet
- Install kubectl
- Configure access to clusters
- Use the Web UI Dashboard
- Configure a Pod to Use a ConfigMap
- Getting help
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Look up reference information
Browse terminology, command line syntax, API resource types, and setup tool documentation.
- Glossary
- kubectl command line tool
- Labels, annotations and taints
- Kubernetes API reference
- Overview of API
- Feature Gates
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Contribute to Kubernetes
Anyone can contribute, whether you’re new to the project or you’ve been around a long time.
- Start contributing to K8s
- Suggest content improvements
- Opening a pull request
- Documenting a feature for a release
- Localizing the docs
- Participating in SIG Docs
- Viewing Site Analytics
Find out how to help
Training
Get certified in Kubernetes and make your cloud native projects successful!
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Download Kubernetes
Install Kubernetes or upgrade to the newest version.
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About the documentation
This website contains documentation for the current and previous 4 versions of Kubernetes.
Last modified September 22, 2023 at 7:06 PM PST: Docs home page card layout is now consistent (64ae09ea32)