FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.22 [alpha] This document describes how to run Kubernetes Node components such as kubelet, CRI, OCI, and CNI without root privileges, by using a user namespace. This technique is also known as rootless mode. Note:This document describes how to run Kubernetes Node components (and hence pods) as a non-root user. If you are just looking for how to run a pod as a non-root user, see SecurityContext.

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 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.

This tutorial shows you how to build and deploy a simple (not production ready), multi-tier web application using Kubernetes and Docker. This example consists of the following components: A single-instance Redis to store guestbook entries Multiple web frontend instances Objectives Start up a Redis leader. Start up two Redis followers. Start up the guestbook frontend. Expose and view the Frontend Service. Clean up. Before you begin You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

This section is relevant for people adopting a new built-in sidecar containers feature for their workloads. Sidecar container is not a new concept as posted in the blog post. Kubernetes allows running multiple containers in a Pod to implement this concept. However, running a sidecar container as a regular container has a lot of limitations being fixed with the new built-in sidecar containers support. FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.33 [stable] (enabled by default: true) Objectives Understand the need for sidecar containers Be able to troubleshoot issues with the sidecar containers Understand options to universally "inject" sidecar containers to any workload Before you begin You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster.

Objectives Scale an existing app manually using kubectl. Scaling an application You can create from the start a Deployment with multiple instances using the --replicas parameter for the kubectl create deployment command. Previously we created a Deployment, and then exposed it publicly via a Service. The Deployment created only one Pod for running our application. When traffic increases, we will need to scale the application to keep up with user demand.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

This document details the deprecation policy for various facets of the system. Kubernetes is a large system with many components and many contributors. As with any such software, the feature set naturally evolves over time, and sometimes a feature may need to be removed. This could include an API, a flag, or even an entire feature. To avoid breaking existing users, Kubernetes follows a deprecation policy for aspects of the system that are slated to be removed.

A ServiceAccount provides an identity for processes that run in a Pod. A process inside a Pod can use the identity of its associated service account to authenticate to the cluster's API server. For an introduction to service accounts, read configure service accounts. This task guide explains some of the concepts behind ServiceAccounts. The guide also explains how to obtain or revoke tokens that represent ServiceAccounts, and how to (optionally) bind a ServiceAccount's validity to the lifetime of an API object.