Kubernetes offers two distinct ways for clients that run within your cluster, or that otherwise have a relationship to your cluster's control plane to authenticate to the API server. A service account provides an identity for processes that run in a Pod, and maps to a ServiceAccount object. When you authenticate to the API server, you identify yourself as a particular user. Kubernetes recognises the concept of a user, however, Kubernetes itself does not have a User API.

Node Problem Detector is a daemon for monitoring and reporting about a node's health. You can run Node Problem Detector as a DaemonSet or as a standalone daemon. Node Problem Detector collects information about node problems from various daemons and reports these conditions to the API server as Node Conditions or as Events. To learn how to install and use Node Problem Detector, see Node Problem Detector project documentation.

Kubernetes namespaces help different projects, teams, or customers to share a Kubernetes cluster. It does this by providing the following: A scope for Names. A mechanism to attach authorization and policy to a subsection of the cluster. Use of multiple namespaces is optional. This example demonstrates how to use Kubernetes namespaces to subdivide your cluster. Before you begin You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster.

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Kubernetes nodes come pre-populated with a standard set of labels. You can also set your own labels on nodes, either through the kubelet configuration or using the Kubernetes API. Preset labels The preset labels that Kubernetes sets on nodes are: kubernetes.io/arch kubernetes.io/hostname kubernetes.io/os node.kubernetes.io/instance-type (if known to the kubelet – Kubernetes may not have this information to set the label) topology.kubernetes.io/region (if known to the kubelet – Kubernetes may not have this information to set the label) topology.

Overview Package v1beta4 defines the v1beta4 version of the kubeadm configuration file format. This version improves on the v1beta3 format by fixing some minor issues and adding a few new fields. A list of changes since v1beta3: Support custom environment variables in control plane components under ClusterConfiguration. Use apiServer.extraEnvs, controllerManager.extraEnvs, scheduler.extraEnvs, etcd.local.extraEnvs. The ResetConfiguration API type is now supported in v1beta4. Users are able to reset a node by passing a --config file to kubeadm reset.

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A Deployment manages a set of Pods to run an application workload, usually one that doesn't maintain state.

A DaemonSet defines Pods that provide node-local facilities. These might be fundamental to the operation of your cluster, such as a networking helper tool, or be part of an add-on.