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Kubernetes API fundamentals

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Kubernetes API fundamentals

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The API server is something we've talked about a number of different times already. It is the central component of the Kubernetes control plane, and it allows you to be able to expose the Kubernetes API and have a central location to be able to connect to it. It will consume and provide REST connections on port 443, and it's ultimately the front in to be able to interact with the cluster's share state resources and the different aspects of being able to manage and operate your cluster. The ability to be able to interact with it requires that you understand how the API endpoints are structured. The API v1 namespaces default pods that you're seeing here is an example of an API endpoint that you might want to use. The API portion of it in the very beginning is the API group. There are multiple ones we'll talk about here in a little bit. And then there's the version 1, which which is going to give you that API version. It's a way to be able to identify what version of the API you're…

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