Note: Dockershim has been removed from the Kubernetes project as of release 1.24. Read the Dockershim Removal FAQ for further details. You need to install a container runtime into each node in the cluster so that Pods can run there. This page outlines what is involved and describes related tasks for setting up nodes. Kubernetes 1.33 requires that you use a runtime that conforms with the Container Runtime Interface (CRI).

Before you begin You must use a kubectl version that is within one minor version difference of your cluster. For example, a v1.33 client can communicate with v1.32, v1.33, and v1.34 control planes. Using the latest compatible version of kubectl helps avoid unforeseen issues. Install kubectl on Windows The following methods exist for installing kubectl on Windows: Install kubectl binary on Windows (via direct download or curl) Install on Windows using Chocolatey, Scoop, or winget Install kubectl binary on Windows (via direct download or curl) You have two options for installing kubectl on your Windows device

Recommendations for designing and deploying admission webhooks in Kubernetes.

Application logs can help you understand what is happening inside your application. The logs are particularly useful for debugging problems and monitoring cluster activity. Most modern applications have some kind of logging mechanism. Likewise, container engines are designed to support logging. The easiest and most adopted logging method for containerized applications is writing to standard output and standard error streams. However, the native functionality provided by a container engine or runtime is usually not enough for a complete logging solution.

In the scheduling-plugin NodeResourcesFit of kube-scheduler, there are two scoring strategies that support the bin packing of resources: MostAllocated and RequestedToCapacityRatio. Enabling bin packing using MostAllocated strategy The MostAllocated strategy scores the nodes based on the utilization of resources, favoring the ones with higher allocation. For each resource type, you can set a weight to modify its influence in the node score. To set the MostAllocated strategy for the NodeResourcesFit plugin, use a scheduler configuration similar to the following:

kube-state-metrics, an add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.14 [beta] kube-scheduler is the Kubernetes default scheduler. It is responsible for placement of Pods on Nodes in a cluster. Nodes in a cluster that meet the scheduling requirements of a Pod are called feasible Nodes for the Pod. The scheduler finds feasible Nodes for a Pod and then runs a set of functions to score the feasible Nodes, picking a Node with the highest score among the feasible ones to run the Pod.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

This page shows how a Pod can use a downwardAPI volume, to expose information about itself to containers running in the Pod. A downwardAPI volume can expose Pod fields and container fields. In Kubernetes, there are two ways to expose Pod and container fields to a running container: Environment variables Volume files, as explained in this task Together, these two ways of exposing Pod and container fields are called the downward API.

Configure load balancing, port forwarding, or setup firewall or DNS configurations to access applications in a cluster.