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title: Tasks
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---
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This section of the Kubernetes documentation contains pages that
show how to do individual tasks. A task page shows how to do a
single thing, typically by giving a short sequence of steps.
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#### Using the kubectl Command Line
* [Listing Alll Container Images Running in a Cluster ](/docs/tasks/kubectl/list-all-running-container-images/ )
* [Getting a Shell to a Running Container ](/docs/tasks/kubectl/get-shell-running-container/ )
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#### Configuring Pods and Containers
* [Defining Environment Variables for a Container ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/define-environment-variable-container/ )
* [Defining a Command and Arguments for a Container ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/define-command-argument-container/ )
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* [Assigning CPU and RAM Resources to a Container ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/assign-cpu-ram-container/ )
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* [Configuring a Pod to Use a Volume for Storage ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-volume-storage/ )
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* [Configuring a Pod to Use a PersistentVolume for Storage ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-persistent-volume-storage/ )
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* [Exposing Pod Information to Containers Through Environment Variables ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/environment-variable-expose-pod-information/ )
* [Exposing Pod Information to Containers Using a DownwardAPIVolumeFile ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/downward-api-volume-expose-pod-information/ )
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* [Distributing Credentials Securely ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/distribute-credentials-secure/ )
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* [Pulling an Image from a Private Registry ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/pull-image-private-registry/ )
* [Configuring Liveness and Readiness Probes ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-probes/ )
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* [Communicating Between Containers Running in the Same Pod ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/communicate-containers-same-pod/ )
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* [Configuring Pod Initialization ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-pod-initialization/ )
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* [Attaching Handlers to Container Lifecycle Events ](/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/attach-handler-lifecycle-event/ )
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#### Accessing Applications in a Cluster
* [Using Port Forwarding to Access Applications in a Cluster ](/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/port-forward-access-application-cluster/ )
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* [Providing Load-Balanced Access to an Application in a Cluster ](/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/load-balance-access-application-cluster/ )
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#### Debugging Applications in a Cluster
* [Determining the Reason for Pod Failure ](/docs/tasks/debug-application-cluster/determine-reason-pod-failure/ )
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#### Accessing the Kubernetes API
* [Using an HTTP Proxy to Access the Kubernetes API ](/docs/tasks/access-kubernetes-api/http-proxy-access-api )
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#### Administering a Cluster
* [Assigning Pods to Nodes ](/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/assign-pods-nodes/ )
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* [Autoscaling the DNS Service in a Cluster ](/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/dns-horizontal-autoscaling/ )
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* [Safely Draining a Node while Respecting Application SLOs ](/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/safely-drain-node/ )
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* [Changing reclaim policy of a PersistentVolume ](/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/change-pv-reclaim-policy/ )
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#### Managing Stateful Applications
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* [Upgrading from PetSets to StatefulSets ](/docs/tasks/manage-stateful-set/upgrade-pet-set-to-stateful-set/ )
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* [Scaling a StatefulSet ](/docs/tasks/manage-stateful-set/scale-stateful-set/ )
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* [Deleting a StatefulSet ](/docs/tasks/manage-stateful-set/deleting-a-statefulset/ )
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* [Debugging a StatefulSet ](/docs/tasks/manage-stateful-set/debugging-a-statefulset/ )
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* [Force Deleting StatefulSet Pods ](/docs/tasks/manage-stateful-set/delete-pods/ )
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#### Troubleshooting
* [Debugging Init Containers ](/docs/tasks/troubleshoot/debug-init-containers/ )
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### What's next
If you would like to write a task page, see
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[Creating a Documentation Pull Request ](/docs/contribute/create-pull-request/ ).
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