FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.18 [stable] This page shows how to configure Group Managed Service Accounts (GMSA) for Pods and containers that will run on Windows nodes. Group Managed Service Accounts are a specific type of Active Directory account that provides automatic password management, simplified service principal name (SPN) management, and the ability to delegate the management to other administrators across multiple servers. In Kubernetes, GMSA credential specs are configured at a Kubernetes cluster-wide scope as Custom Resources.

Learn how to configure networking for your cluster.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.33 [stable] (enabled by default: true) This document shares how to reconfigure the default Service IP range(s) assigned to a cluster. 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.

Configure and manage huge pages as a schedulable resource in a cluster.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.34 [stable] (enabled by default: true) This page describes dynamic resource allocation (DRA) in Kubernetes. About DRA DRA is a Kubernetes feature that lets you request and share resources among Pods. These resources are often attached devices like hardware accelerators. With DRA, device drivers and cluster admins define device classes that are available to claim in workloads. Kubernetes allocates matching devices to specific claims and places the corresponding Pods on nodes that can access the allocated devices.

Node-pressure eviction is the process by which the kubelet proactively terminates pods to reclaim resource on nodes. The kubelet monitors resources like memory, disk space, and filesystem inodes on your cluster's nodes. When one or more of these resources reach specific consumption levels, the kubelet can proactively fail one or more pods on the node to reclaim resources and prevent starvation. During a node-pressure eviction, the kubelet sets the phase for the selected pods to Failed, and terminates the Pod.

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.

In Kubernetes, scheduling refers to making sure that Pods are matched to Nodes so that Kubelet can run them. Scheduling overview A scheduler watches for newly created Pods that have no Node assigned. For every Pod that the scheduler discovers, the scheduler becomes responsible for finding the best Node for that Pod to run on. The scheduler reaches this placement decision taking into account the scheduling principles described below.

This page outlines steps to find out what container runtime the nodes in your cluster use. Depending on the way you run your cluster, the container runtime for the nodes may have been pre-configured or you need to configure it. If you're using a managed Kubernetes service, there might be vendor-specific ways to check what container runtime is configured for the nodes. The method described on this page should work whenever the execution of kubectl is allowed.