Set up Kubernetes tools on your computer.

Before you begin You must use a kubectl version that is within one minor version difference of your cluster. For example, a v1.29 client can communicate with v1.28, v1.29, and v1.30 control planes. Using the latest compatible version of kubectl helps avoid unforeseen issues. Install kubectl on Windows The following methods exist for installing kubectl on Windows: Install kubectl binary with curl on Windows Install on Windows using Chocolatey, Scoop, or winget Install kubectl binary with curl on Windows Download the latest 1.

Node-pressure eviction is the process by which the kubelet proactively terminates pods to reclaim resources 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.

In the scheduling-plugin NodeResourcesFit of kube-scheduler, there are two scoring strategies that support the bin packing of resources: MostAllocated and RequestedToCapacityRatio. Enabling bin packing using MostAllocated strategy The MostAllocated strategy scores the nodes based on the utilization of resources, favoring the ones with higher allocation. For each resource type, you can set a weight to modify its influence in the node score. To set the MostAllocated strategy for the NodeResourcesFit plugin, use a scheduler configuration similar to the following:

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Application logs can help you understand what is happening inside your application. The logs are particularly useful for debugging problems and monitoring cluster activity. Most modern applications have some kind of logging mechanism. Likewise, container engines are designed to support logging. The easiest and most adopted logging method for containerized applications is writing to standard output and standard error streams. However, the native functionality provided by a container engine or runtime is usually not enough for a complete logging solution.

kube-state-metrics, an add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

Kubernetes supports nodes that run Microsoft Windows.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.27 [beta] System component traces record the latency of and relationships between operations in the cluster. Kubernetes components emit traces using the OpenTelemetry Protocol with the gRPC exporter and can be collected and routed to tracing backends using an OpenTelemetry Collector. Trace Collection For a complete guide to collecting traces and using the collector, see Getting Started with the OpenTelemetry Collector. However, there are a few things to note that are specific to Kubernetes components.

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.