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Guides

How to get started, and accomplish tasks, using Kubernetes.

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What is Kubernetes?

Accessing the Cluster

Installing and Setting up kubectl

Accessing Clusters

Sharing Cluster Access with kubeconfig

Authenticating Across Clusters with kubeconfig

Web UI (Dashboard)

Workload Deployment and Management

Managing Resources

Replication Controller Operations

Resizing a Replication Controller

Rolling Updates

Rolling Update Demo

Using ConfigMap

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling

Best Practices for Configuration

Using kubectl to Manage Resources

Garbage Collection (Beta)

Using NetworkPolicy

Example Walkthrough

Using Calico for NetworkPolicy

Using Romana for NetworkPolicy

Using Weave Net for NetworkPolicy

Batch Jobs

Parallel Processing using Expansions

Coarse Parallel Processing using a Work Queue

Fine Parallel Processing using a Work Queue

Service Discovery and Load Balancing

Connecting Applications with Services

Service Operations

Creating an External Load Balancer

Configuring Your Cloud Provider's Firewalls

Cross-cluster Service Discovery using Federated Services

Containers and Pods

Creating Multi-Container Pods

Using Environment Variables

Managing Compute Resources

Container Lifecycle Hooks

Assigning Pods to Nodes

Bootstrapping Pet Sets

Monitoring, Logging, and Debugging Containers

Resource Usage Monitoring

Logging

Logging Overview

Logging with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Connect with Proxies

Connect with Port Forwarding

Using Explorer to Examine the Runtime Environment

Creating a Cluster

Picking the Right Solution

Running Kubernetes on Your Local Machine

Running Kubernetes Locally via Minikube

Deprecated Alternatives

Running Kubernetes on Turn-key Cloud Solutions

Running Kubernetes on Google Container Engine

Running Kubernetes on Google Compute Engine

Running Kubernetes on AWS EC2

Running Kubernetes on Azure Container Service

Running Kubernetes on Azure

Running Kubernetes on CenturyLink Cloud

Running Kubernetes on IBM SoftLayer

Running Kubernetes on Multiple Clouds with Stackpoint.io

Running Kubernetes on Custom Solutions

Creating a Custom Cluster from Scratch

Installing Kubernetes on Linux with kubeadm

Custom Cloud Solutions

CoreOS on AWS or GCE

Kubernetes on Ubuntu

CoreOS on Rackspace

Installing Kubernetes on AWS with kops

Installing Kubernetes On-premise/Cloud Providers with Kargo

On-Premise VMs

CoreOS on AWS or GCE

VMware Photon Controller

CoreOS on libvirt

rkt

Running Kubernetes with rkt

Known Issues when Using rkt

Kubernetes on Mesos

Kubernetes on Mesos on Docker

Bare Metal

Fedora via Ansible

Fedora (Single Node)

Fedora (Multi Node)

CoreOS on AWS or GCE

Kubernetes on Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Kubernetes on Ubuntu

Setting up Kubernetes with Juju

Security Considerations

Troubleshooting

Decommissioning

Deploying Kubernetes with Calico Networking on Ubuntu

Operational Considerations

Glossary and Terminology

Local Kubernetes development with LXD

Manually Deploying Kubernetes on Ubuntu Nodes

Windows Server Containers

Validate Node Setup

Portable Multi-Node Cluster

Building Large Clusters

Running in Multiple Zones

Building High-Availability Clusters

Downloading or Building Kubernetes

Administering Clusters

Cluster Management Guide

Cluster Management Guide

kubeadm reference

Installing Addons

Audit in Kubernetes

Setting up High-Availability Kubernetes Masters

Sharing a Cluster with Namespaces

Namespaces Walkthrough

Setting Pod CPU and Memory Limits

Pod Disruption Budget

Resource Quotas

Applying Resource Quotas and Limits

Limiting Storage Consumption

Guaranteed Scheduling For Critical Add-On Pods

Using Sysctls in a Kubernetes Cluster

Kubernetes Components

Configuring Kubernetes Use of etcd

Using Multiple Clusters

Changing Cluster Size

Configuring Multiple Schedulers

Networking in Kubernetes

Using DNS Pods and Services

Setting Up and Configuring DNS

Master-Node communication

Network Plugins

Configuring kubelet Garbage Collection

Configuring Out Of Resource Handling

Configuring Kubernetes with Salt

Monitoring Node Health

Administering Federation

Setting up Cluster Federation with Kubefed

Federated Kubernetes Objects

Federation User Guide

Federated ConfigMap

Federated DaemonSet

Federated Deployment

Federated Events

Federated Ingress

Federated Namespaces

Federated ReplicaSets

Federated Secrets

Federation API Reference

Federation Components

federation-apiserver

federation-controller-manager

Federation API Reference

Federation API server supports the following group versions:

federation/v1beta1: operations, model definitions
v1: operations, model definitions
extensions/v1beta1: operations, model definitions

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