etcd is a consistent and highly-available key value store used as Kubernetes' backing store for all cluster data. If your Kubernetes cluster uses etcd as its backing store, make sure you have a back up plan for the data. You can find in-depth information about etcd in the official documentation. Before you begin Before you follow steps in this page to deploy, manage, back up or restore etcd, you need to understand the typical expectations for operating an etcd cluster.

This page shows you how to specify the type of cascading deletion to use in your cluster during garbage collection. Before you begin You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster. It is recommended to run this tutorial on a cluster with at least two nodes that are not acting as control plane hosts. If you do not already have a cluster, you can create one by using minikube or you can use one of these Kubernetes playgrounds:

Synopsis Delete the specified cluster from the kubeconfig. kubectl config delete-cluster NAME Examples # Delete the minikube cluster kubectl config delete-cluster minikube Options -h, --help help for delete-cluster --as string Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace. --as-group strings Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups. --as-uid string UID to impersonate for the operation.

Synopsis Print the supported API versions on the server, in the form of "group/version". kubectl api-versions Examples # Print the supported API versions kubectl api-versions Options -h, --help help for api-versions --as string Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace. --as-group strings Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.

kubeadm upgrade is a user-friendly command that wraps complex upgrading logic behind one command, with support for both planning an upgrade and actually performing it. kubeadm upgrade guidance The steps for performing an upgrade using kubeadm are outlined in this document. For older versions of kubeadm, please refer to older documentation sets of the Kubernetes website. You can use kubeadm upgrade diff to see the changes that would be applied to static pod manifests.

This tutorial shows you how to run a standalone Kubelet instance. You may have different motivations for running a standalone kubelet. This tutorial is aimed at introducing you to Kubernetes, even if you don't have much experience with it. You can follow this tutorial and learn about node setup, basic (static) Pods, and how Kubernetes manages containers. Once you have followed this tutorial, you could try using a cluster that has a control plane to manage pods and nodes, and other types of objects.

Kubernetes certificate and trust bundle APIs enable automation of X.509 credential provisioning by providing a programmatic interface for clients of the Kubernetes API to request and obtain X.509 certificates from a Certificate Authority (CA). There is also experimental (alpha) support for distributing trust bundles. Certificate signing requests FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.19 [stable] A CertificateSigningRequest (CSR) resource is used to request that a certificate be signed by a denoted signer, after which the request may be approved or denied before finally being signed.

The Kubernetes API server provides API endpoints to indicate the current status of the API server. This page describes these API endpoints and explains how you can use them. API endpoints for health The Kubernetes API server provides 3 API endpoints (healthz, livez and readyz) to indicate the current status of the API server. The healthz endpoint is deprecated (since Kubernetes v1.16), and you should use the more specific livez and readyz endpoints instead.

You can use the Kubernetes command line tool kubectl to interact with the API Server. Using kubectl is straightforward if you are familiar with the Docker command line tool. However, there are a few differences between the Docker commands and the kubectl commands. The following sections show a Docker sub-command and describe the equivalent kubectl command. docker run To run an nginx Deployment and expose the Deployment, see kubectl create deployment.

The Kubernetes documentation follows several types of page content: Concept Task Tutorial Reference Content sections Each page content type contains a number of sections defined by Markdown comments and HTML headings. You can add content headings to your page with the heading shortcode. The comments and headings help maintain the structure of the page content types. Examples of Markdown comments defining page content sections: <!-- overview --> <!-- body --> To create common headings in your content pages, use the heading shortcode with a heading string.