Set up Kubernetes tools on your computer.

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.

Kubernetes supports nodes that run Microsoft Windows.

Kubernetes objects are persistent entities in the Kubernetes system. Kubernetes uses these entities to represent the state of your cluster. Learn about the Kubernetes object model and how to work with these objects.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.24 [stable] This page shows how to use a SOCKS5 proxy to access the API of a remote Kubernetes cluster. This is useful when the cluster you want to access does not expose its API directly on the public internet. 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.

Kubernetes lets you use a public key infrastructure (PKI) to authenticate to your cluster as a client. A few steps are required in order to get a normal user to be able to authenticate and invoke an API. First, this user must have an X.509 certificate issued by an authority that your Kubernetes cluster trusts. The client must then present that certificate to the Kubernetes API. You use a CertificateSigningRequest as part of this process, and either you or some other principal must approve the request.

Objectives Learn what a Kubernetes cluster is. Learn what Minikube is. Start a Kubernetes cluster on your computer. Kubernetes Clusters Kubernetes is a production-grade, open-source platform that orchestrates the placement (scheduling) and execution of application containers within and across computer clusters. Kubernetes coordinates a highly available cluster of computers that are connected to work as a single unit. The abstractions in Kubernetes allow you to deploy containerized applications to a cluster without tying them specifically to individual machines.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Kubernetes certificate and trust bundle APIs enable automation of X.509 credential provisioning by providing a programmatic interface for clients of the Kubernetes API to request and obtain X.509 certificates from a Certificate Authority (CA). There is also experimental (alpha) support for distributing trust bundles. Certificate signing requests FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.19 [stable] A CertificateSigningRequest (CSR) resource is used to request that a certificate be signed by a denoted signer, after which the request may be approved or denied before finally being signed.