Note: This section links to third party projects that provide functionality required by Kubernetes. The Kubernetes project authors aren't responsible for these projects, which are listed alphabetically. To add a project to this list, read the content guide before submitting a change. More information. Many features rely on specific kernel functionalities and have minimum kernel version requirements. However, relying solely on kernel version numbers may not be sufficient for certain operating system distributions, as maintainers for distributions such as RHEL, Ubuntu and SUSE often backport selected features to older kernel releases (retaining the older kernel version).

Synopsis Attach to a process that is already running inside an existing container. kubectl attach (POD | TYPE/NAME) -c CONTAINER Examples # Get output from running pod mypod; use the 'kubectl.kubernetes.io/default-container' annotation # for selecting the container to be attached or the first container in the pod will be chosen kubectl attach mypod # Get output from ruby-container from pod mypod kubectl attach mypod -c ruby-container # Switch to raw terminal mode; sends stdin to 'bash' in ruby-container from pod mypod # and sends stdout/stderr from 'bash' back to the client kubectl attach mypod -c ruby-container -i -t # Get output from the first pod of a replica set named nginx kubectl attach rs/nginx Options -c, --container string Container name.

Kubernetes provides a command line tool for communicating with a Kubernetes cluster's control plane, using the Kubernetes API. This tool is named kubectl. For configuration, kubectl looks for a file named config in the $HOME/.kube directory. You can specify other kubeconfig files by setting the KUBECONFIG environment variable or by setting the --kubeconfig flag. This overview covers kubectl syntax, describes the command operations, and provides common examples. For details about each command, including all the supported flags and subcommands, see the kubectl reference documentation.

Learn how to configure networking for your cluster.

This page explains how to add versioning information to CustomResourceDefinitions, to indicate the stability level of your CustomResourceDefinitions or advance your API to a new version with conversion between API representations. It also describes how to upgrade an object from one version to another. 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.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.24 [stable] In this example, you will run a Kubernetes Job that uses multiple parallel worker processes. Each worker is a different container running in its own Pod. The Pods have an index number that the control plane sets automatically, which allows each Pod to identify which part of the overall task to work on. The pod index is available in the annotation batch.kubernetes.io/job-completion-index as a string representing its decimal value.

This task shows how to scale a StatefulSet. Scaling a StatefulSet refers to increasing or decreasing the number of replicas. Before you begin StatefulSets are only available in Kubernetes version 1.5 or later. To check your version of Kubernetes, run kubectl version. Not all stateful applications scale nicely. If you are unsure about whether to scale your StatefulSets, see StatefulSet concepts or StatefulSet tutorial for further information. You should perform scaling only when you are confident that your stateful application cluster is completely healthy.

Details of Kubernetes authorization mechanisms and supported authorization modes.

This page shows how to securely inject sensitive data, such as passwords and encryption keys, into Pods. 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:

Kustomize is a standalone tool to customize Kubernetes objects through a kustomization file. Since 1.14, Kubectl also supports the management of Kubernetes objects using a kustomization file. To view Resources found in a directory containing a kustomization file, run the following command: kubectl kustomize <kustomization_directory> To apply those Resources, run kubectl apply with --kustomize or -k flag: kubectl apply -k <kustomization_directory> Before you begin Install kubectl. You need to have a Kubernetes cluster, and the kubectl command-line tool must be configured to communicate with your cluster.