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 describes how clients can authenticate to the Kubernetes API server, and how their
 requests are authorized.
 
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-The REST API is the fundamental fabric of Kubernetes. All operations and
-communications between components, and external user commands are REST API
-calls that the API Server handles. Consequently, everything in the Kubernetes
-platform is treated as an API object and has a corresponding entry in the
-API.
 
 ## API versioning