This document highlights and consolidates configuration best practices that are introduced throughout the user guide, Getting Started documentation, and examples. This is a living document. If you think of something that is not on this list but might be useful to others, please don't hesitate to file an issue or submit a PR. General Configuration Tips When defining configurations, specify the latest stable API version. Configuration files should be stored in version control before being pushed to the cluster.

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 describes security considerations and best practices specific to the Windows operating system. Protection for Secret data on nodes On Windows, data from Secrets are written out in clear text onto the node's local storage (as compared to using tmpfs / in-memory filesystems on Linux). As a cluster operator, you should take both of the following additional measures: Use file ACLs to secure the Secrets' file location. Apply volume-level encryption using BitLocker.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.15 [stable] Client certificates generated by kubeadm expire after 1 year. This page explains how to manage certificate renewals with kubeadm. It also covers other tasks related to kubeadm certificate management. Before you begin You should be familiar with PKI certificates and requirements in Kubernetes. Using custom certificates By default, kubeadm generates all the certificates needed for a cluster to run. You can override this behavior by providing your own certificates.

This page shows how to change the access mode on an existing PersistentVolume to use ReadWriteOncePod. 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:

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.27 [alpha] This page assumes that you are familiar with Quality of Service for Kubernetes Pods. This page shows how to resize CPU and memory resources assigned to containers of a running pod without restarting the pod or its containers. A Kubernetes node allocates resources for a pod based on its requests, and restricts the pod's resource usage based on the limits specified in the pod's containers.

Set up monitoring and logging to troubleshoot a cluster, or debug a containerized application.

In addition to compiled-in admission plugins, admission plugins can be developed as extensions and run as webhooks configured at runtime. This page describes how to build, configure, use, and monitor admission webhooks. What are admission webhooks? Admission webhooks are HTTP callbacks that receive admission requests and do something with them. You can define two types of admission webhooks, validating admission webhook and mutating admission webhook. Mutating admission webhooks are invoked first, and can modify objects sent to the API server to enforce custom defaults.

This tutorial shows you how to run Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes. Cassandra, a database, needs persistent storage to provide data durability (application state). In this example, a custom Cassandra seed provider lets the database discover new Cassandra instances as they join the Cassandra cluster. StatefulSets make it easier to deploy stateful applications into your Kubernetes cluster. For more information on the features used in this tutorial, see StatefulSet. Note:Cassandra and Kubernetes both use the term node to mean a member of a cluster.

This page serves as a reference for the audit annotations of the kubernetes.io namespace. These annotations apply to Event object from API group audit.k8s.io. Note:The following annotations are not used within the Kubernetes API. When you enable auditing in your cluster, audit event data is written using Event from API group audit.k8s.io. The annotations apply to audit events. Audit events are different from objects in the Event API (API group events.