To scale an application and provide a reliable service, you need to understand how the application behaves when it is deployed. You can examine application performance in a Kubernetes cluster by examining the containers, pods, services, and the characteristics of the overall cluster. Kubernetes provides detailed information about an application's resource usage at each of these levels. This information allows you to evaluate your application's performance and where bottlenecks can be removed to improve overall performance.

Synopsis Display merged kubeconfig settings or a specified kubeconfig file. You can use --output jsonpath={...} to extract specific values using a jsonpath expression. kubectl config view [flags] Examples # Show merged kubeconfig settings kubectl config view # Show merged kubeconfig settings, raw certificate data, and exposed secrets kubectl config view --raw # Get the password for the e2e user kubectl config view -o jsonpath='{.users[?(@.name == "e2e")].user.password}' Options --allow-missing-template-keys     Default: true If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template.

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In Kubernetes, some objects are owners of other objects. For example, a ReplicaSet is the owner of a set of Pods. These owned objects are dependents of their owner. Ownership is different from the labels and selectors mechanism that some resources also use. For example, consider a Service that creates EndpointSlice objects. The Service uses labels to allow the control plane to determine which EndpointSlice objects are used for that Service.

A cluster is a set of nodes (physical or virtual machines) running Kubernetes agents, managed by the control plane. Kubernetes v1.33 supports clusters with up to 5,000 nodes. More specifically, Kubernetes is designed to accommodate configurations that meet all of the following criteria: No more than 110 pods per node No more than 5,000 nodes No more than 150,000 total pods No more than 300,000 total containers You can scale your cluster by adding or removing nodes.

Kubernetes runs your workload by placing containers into Pods to run on Nodes. A node may be a virtual or physical machine, depending on the cluster. Each node is managed by the control plane and contains the services necessary to run Pods. Typically you have several nodes in a cluster; in a learning or resource-limited environment, you might have only one node. The components on a node include the kubelet, a container runtime, and the kube-proxy.

Concepts and resources behind networking in Kubernetes.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Node affinity is a property of Pods that attracts them to a set of nodes (either as a preference or a hard requirement). Taints are the opposite -- they allow a node to repel a set of pods. Tolerations are applied to pods. Tolerations allow the scheduler to schedule pods with matching taints. Tolerations allow scheduling but don't guarantee scheduling: the scheduler also evaluates other parameters as part of its function.

This document describes projected volumes in Kubernetes. Familiarity with volumes is suggested. Introduction A projected volume maps several existing volume sources into the same directory. Currently, the following types of volume sources can be projected: secret downwardAPI configMap serviceAccountToken clusterTrustBundle All sources are required to be in the same namespace as the Pod. For more details, see the all-in-one volume design document. Example configuration with a secret, a downwardAPI, and a configMap pods/storage/projected-secret-downwardapi-configmap.