This page shows how to write and read a Container termination message. Termination messages provide a way for containers to write information about fatal events to a location where it can be easily retrieved and surfaced by tools like dashboards and monitoring software. In most cases, information that you put in a termination message should also be written to the general Kubernetes logs. Before you begin You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.28 [alpha](disabled by default) Kubernetes 1.34 includes an alpha feature that lets an API Server proxy a resource requests to other peer API servers. This is useful when there are multiple API servers running different versions of Kubernetes in one cluster (for example, during a long-lived rollout to a new release of Kubernetes). This enables cluster administrators to configure highly available clusters that can be upgraded more safely, by directing resource requests (made during the upgrade) to the correct kube-apiserver.

This guide is for application owners who want to build highly available applications, and thus need to understand what types of disruptions can happen to Pods. It is also for cluster administrators who want to perform automated cluster actions, like upgrading and autoscaling clusters. Voluntary and involuntary disruptions Pods do not disappear until someone (a person or a controller) destroys them, or there is an unavoidable hardware or system software error.

In order for an [Ingress](/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/) to work in your cluster, there must be an _ingress controller_ running. You need to select at least one ingress controller and make sure it is set up in your cluster. This page lists common ingress controllers that you can deploy.

All of the APIs in Kubernetes that let you write persistent API resource data support at-rest encryption. For example, you can enable at-rest encryption for Secrets. This at-rest encryption is additional to any system-level encryption for the etcd cluster or for the filesystem(s) on hosts where you are running the kube-apiserver. This page shows how to switch from encryption of API data at rest, so that API data are stored unencrypted.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.11 [beta] 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.

This page shows a couple of quick ways to create a Calico cluster on Kubernetes. Before you begin Decide whether you want to deploy a cloud or local cluster. Creating a Calico cluster with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Prerequisite: gcloud. To launch a GKE cluster with Calico, include the --enable-network-policy flag. Syntax gcloud container clusters create [CLUSTER_NAME] --enable-network-policy Example gcloud container clusters create my-calico-cluster --enable-network-policy To verify the deployment, use the following command.

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

This topic discusses multiple ways to interact with clusters. Accessing for the first time with kubectl When accessing the Kubernetes API for the first time, we suggest using the Kubernetes CLI, kubectl. To access a cluster, you need to know the location of the cluster and have credentials to access it. Typically, this is automatically set-up when you work through a Getting started guide, or someone else set up the cluster and provided you with credentials and a location.

This page shows you how to run a single-instance stateful application in Kubernetes using a PersistentVolume and a Deployment. The application is MySQL. Objectives Create a PersistentVolume referencing a disk in your environment. Create a MySQL Deployment. Expose MySQL to other pods in the cluster at a known DNS name. Before you begin You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster.