Concepts | Kubernetes

The Concepts section helps you learn about the parts of the Kubernetes system and the abstractions Kubernetes uses to represent your cluster, and helps you obtain a deeper understanding of how Kubernetes works.
Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services that facilitate both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available.
The architectural concepts behind Kubernetes.
Technology for packaging an application along with its runtime dependencies.
Understand Pods, the smallest deployable compute object in Kubernetes, and the higher-level abstractions that help you to run them.
Concepts and resources behind networking in Kubernetes.
Ways to provide both long-term and temporary storage to Pods in your cluster.
Configuration mechanisms within Kubernetes.
Concepts for keeping your cloud-native workload secure.
Manage security and best-practices with policies.
How Kubernetes represents, requests, allocates, and constrains the resources that workloads consume.
Lower-level detail relevant to creating or administering a Kubernetes cluster.
Kubernetes supports nodes that run Microsoft Windows.
Different ways to change the behavior of your Kubernetes cluster.
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