This page shows you how to specify the type of cascading deletion to use in your cluster during garbage collection. 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. If you do not already have a cluster, you can create one by using minikube or you can use one of these Kubernetes playgrounds:

This page guides you through configuring Node overprovisioning in your Kubernetes cluster. Node overprovisioning is a strategy that proactively reserves a portion of your cluster's compute resources. This reservation helps reduce the time required to schedule new pods during scaling events, enhancing your cluster's responsiveness to sudden spikes in traffic or workload demands. By maintaining some unused capacity, you ensure that resources are immediately available when new pods are created, preventing them from entering a pending state while the cluster scales up.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.18 [stable] This page shows how to use the runAsUserName setting for Pods and containers that will run on Windows nodes. This is roughly equivalent of the Linux-specific runAsUser setting, allowing you to run applications in a container as a different username than the default. Before you begin You need to have a Kubernetes cluster and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster.

You can use Kubernetes annotations to attach arbitrary non-identifying metadata to objects. Clients such as tools and libraries can retrieve this metadata. Attaching metadata to objects You can use either labels or annotations to attach metadata to Kubernetes objects. Labels can be used to select objects and to find collections of objects that satisfy certain conditions. In contrast, annotations are not used to identify and select objects. The metadata in an annotation can be small or large, structured or unstructured, and can include characters not permitted by labels.

The architectural concepts behind Kubernetes.

This page describes the resources available to Containers in the Container environment. Container environment The Kubernetes Container environment provides several important resources to Containers: A filesystem, which is a combination of an image and one or more volumes. Information about the Container itself. Information about other objects in the cluster. Container information The hostname of a Container is the name of the Pod in which the Container is running. It is available through the hostname command or the gethostname function call in libc.

Kubernetes supports running nodes on either Linux or Windows. You can mix both kinds of node within a single cluster. This page provides an overview to networking specific to the Windows operating system. Container networking on Windows Networking for Windows containers is exposed through CNI plugins. Windows containers function similarly to virtual machines in regards to networking. Each container has a virtual network adapter (vNIC) which is connected to a Hyper-V virtual switch (vSwitch).

When you specify a Pod, you can optionally specify how much of each resource a container needs. The most common resources to specify are CPU and memory (RAM); there are others. When you specify the resource request for containers in a Pod, the kube-scheduler uses this information to decide which node to place the Pod on. When you specify a resource limit for a container, the kubelet enforces those limits so that the running container is not allowed to use more of that resource than the limit you set.

This page provides an overview of controlling access to the Kubernetes API. Users access the Kubernetes API using kubectl, client libraries, or by making REST requests. Both human users and Kubernetes service accounts can be authorized for API access. When a request reaches the API, it goes through several stages, illustrated in the following diagram: Transport security By default, the Kubernetes API server listens on port 6443 on the first non-localhost network interface, protected by TLS.

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration engine for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. The open source project is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.