Glossary This glossary is intended to be a comprehensive, standardized list of Kubernetes terminology. It includes te...

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Extend kubectl by creating and installing kubectl plugins.

This page shows how to create a Kubernetes Service object that exposes an external IP address. Before you begin Install kubectl. Use a cloud provider like Google Kubernetes Engine or Amazon Web Services to create a Kubernetes cluster. This tutorial creates an external load balancer, which requires a cloud provider. Configure kubectl to communicate with your Kubernetes API server. For instructions, see the documentation for your cloud provider. Objectives Run five instances of a Hello World application.

Synopsis Create a config map based on a file, directory, or specified literal value. A single config map may package one or more key/value pairs. When creating a config map based on a file, the key will default to the basename of the file, and the value will default to the file content. If the basename is an invalid key, you may specify an alternate key. When creating a config map based on a directory, each file whose basename is a valid key in the directory will be packaged into the config map.

The cloud-controller-manager is a Kubernetes control plane component that embeds cloud-specific control logic. The cloud controller manager lets you link your cluster into your cloud provider's API, and separates out the components that interact with that cloud platform from components that only interact with your cluster. By decoupling the interoperability logic between Kubernetes and the underlying cloud infrastructure, the cloud-controller-manager component enables cloud providers to release features at a different pace compared to the main Kubernetes project.

Use kubectl patch to update Kubernetes API objects in place. Do a strategic merge patch or a JSON merge patch.

In this example, you will run a Job in Indexed completion mode configured such that the pods created by the Job can communicate with each other using pod hostnames rather than pod IP addresses. Pods within a Job might need to communicate among themselves. The user workload running in each pod could query the Kubernetes API server to learn the IPs of the other Pods, but it's much simpler to rely on Kubernetes' built-in DNS resolution.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.30 [alpha] (enabled by default: false) Kubernetes relies on API data being actively re-written, to support some maintenance activities related to at rest storage. Two prominent examples are the versioned schema of stored resources (that is, the preferred storage schema changing from v1 to v2 for a given resource) and encryption at rest (that is, rewriting stale data based on a change in how the data should be encrypted).

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.22 [stable] (enabled by default: true) Kubernetes supports multiple appliers collaborating to manage the fields of a single object. Server-Side Apply provides an optional mechanism for your cluster's control plane to track changes to an object's fields. At the level of a specific resource, Server-Side Apply records and tracks information about control over the fields of that object. Server-Side Apply helps users and controllers manage their resources through declarative configuration.