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

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User Guide
What is Kubernetes?
User Guide
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
Jobs
Parallel Processing using Expansions
Coarse Parallel Processing using a Work Queue
Fine Parallel Processing using a Work Queue
Cron Jobs
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
Pod Templates
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
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
Cloudstack
VMware vSphere
VMware Photon Controller
DCOS
CoreOS on libvirt
oVirt
OpenStack Heat
rkt
Running Kubernetes with rkt
Known Issues when Using rkt
Kubernetes on Mesos
Kubernetes on Mesos on Docker
Bare Metal
Offline
Fedora via Ansible
Fedora (Single Node)
Fedora (Multi Node)
CentOS
CoreOS on AWS or GCE
Kubernetes on Ubuntu
Ubuntu
Kubernetes on Ubuntu
Validation
Backups
Upgrades
Scaling
Setting up Kubernetes with Juju
Monitoring
Networking
Security Considerations
Storage
Troubleshooting
Decommissioning
Deploying Kubernetes with Calico Networking on Ubuntu
Operational Considerations
Glossary and Terminology
Local Kubernetes development with LXD
Logging
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
Admin Guide
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
Static Pods
Configuring kubelet Garbage Collection
Configuring Out Of Resource Handling
Configuring Kubernetes with Salt
Monitoring Node Health
AppArmor
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

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