bigheader: "Concepts"
abstract: "Detailed explanations of Kubernetes system concepts and abstractions."
landing_page: /docs/concepts/index/
toc:
- docs/concepts/index.md

- title: Overview
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes/
  section:
  - docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes.md
  - docs/concepts/overview/components.md
  - docs/concepts/overview/kubernetes-api.md
  - title: Working with Kubernetes Objects
    section:
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/kubernetes-objects.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/names.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/namespaces.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/labels.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/common-labels.md
  - title: Object Management Using kubectl
    section:
    - docs/concepts/overview/object-management-kubectl/overview.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/object-management-kubectl/imperative-command.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/object-management-kubectl/imperative-config.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/object-management-kubectl/declarative-config.md

- title: Kubernetes Architecture
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/architecture/nodes/
  section:
  - docs/concepts/architecture/nodes.md
  - docs/concepts/architecture/master-node-communication.md
  - docs/concepts/architecture/cloud-controller.md

- title: Extending Kubernetes
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/api-extension/custom-resources/
  section:
  - docs/concepts/overview/extending.md
  - title: Extending the Kubernetes API
    section:
    - docs/concepts/api-extension/apiserver-aggregation.md
    - docs/concepts/api-extension/custom-resources.md
  - title: Compute, Storage, and Networking Extensions
    section:
    - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/network-plugins.md
    - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/device-plugins.md
  - docs/concepts/service-catalog/index.md

- title: Containers
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/containers/images/
  section:
  - docs/concepts/containers/images.md
  - docs/concepts/containers/container-environment-variables.md
  - docs/concepts/containers/container-lifecycle-hooks.md

- title: Workloads
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-overview/
  section:
  - title: Pods
    section:
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-overview.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-lifecycle.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/init-containers.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/podpreset.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/disruptions.md
  - title: Controllers
    section:
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/replicaset.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/replicationcontroller.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/deployment.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/daemonset.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/garbage-collection.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/jobs-run-to-completion.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/cron-jobs.md

- title: Configuration
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/configuration/overview/
  section:
  - docs/concepts/configuration/overview.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/manage-compute-resources-container.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/taint-and-toleration.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/secret.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/organize-cluster-access-kubeconfig.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption.md

- title: Services, Load Balancing, and Networking
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/services-networking/service/
  section:
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/service.md
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service.md
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/connect-applications-service.md
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress.md
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/endpoint-slices.md
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies.md
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/add-entries-to-pod-etc-hosts-with-host-aliases.md
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/dual-stack.md

- title: Storage
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/storage/volumes/
  section:
  - docs/concepts/storage/volumes.md
  - docs/concepts/storage/persistent-volumes.md
  - docs/concepts/storage/storage-classes.md
  - docs/concepts/storage/dynamic-provisioning.md

- title: Cluster Administration
  landing_page: /docs/concepts/cluster-administration/cluster-administration-overview/
  section:
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/cluster-administration-overview.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/certificates.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/cloud-providers.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/manage-deployment.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/networking.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/network-plugins.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/logging.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/monitoring.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/kubelet-garbage-collection.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/federation.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/sysctl-cluster.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/authenticate-across-clusters-kubeconfig.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/master-node-communication.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/proxies.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/device-plugins.md
  - title: Policies
    section:
    - docs/concepts/policy/resource-quotas.md
    - docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-policy.md