Kubernetes can be configured to use swap memory on a node, allowing the kernel to free up physical memory by swapping out pages to backing storage. This is useful for multiple use-cases. For example, nodes running workloads that can benefit from using swap, such as those that have large memory footprints but only access a portion of that memory at any given time. It also helps prevent Pods from being terminated during memory pressure spikes, shields nodes from system-level memory spikes that might compromise its stability, allows for more flexible memory management on the node, and much more.

Application logs can help you understand what is happening inside your application. The logs are particularly useful for debugging problems and monitoring cluster activity. Most modern applications have some kind of logging mechanism. Likewise, container engines are designed to support logging. The easiest and most adopted logging method for containerized applications is writing to standard output and standard error streams. However, the native functionality provided by a container engine or runtime is usually not enough for a complete logging solution.

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.

Details of Kubernetes authorization mechanisms and supported authorization modes.

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Synopsis Create a priority class with the specified name, value, globalDefault and description. kubectl create priorityclass NAME --value=VALUE --global-default=BOOL [--dry-run=server|client|none] Examples # Create a priority class named high-priority kubectl create priorityclass high-priority --value=1000 --description="high priority" # Create a priority class named default-priority that is considered as the global default priority kubectl create priorityclass default-priority --value=1000 --global-default=true --description="default priority" # Create a priority class named high-priority that cannot preempt pods with lower priority kubectl create priorityclass high-priority --value=1000 --description="high priority" --preemption-policy="Never" Options --allow-missing-template-keys     Default: true If true, ignore any errors in templates when a field or map key is missing in the template.

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Make your HTTP (or HTTPS) network service available using a protocol-aware configuration mechanism, that understands web concepts like URIs, hostnames, paths, and more. The Ingress concept lets you map traffic to different backends based on rules you define via the Kubernetes API.

An overview of the Pod Security Admission Controller, which can enforce the Pod Security Standards.