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title: API server
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id: kube-apiserver
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date: 2018-04-12
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full_link: /docs/reference/generated/kube-apiserver/
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short_description: >
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Control plane component that serves the Kubernetes API.
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aka:
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- kube-apiserver
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tags:
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- architecture
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- fundamental
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---
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The API server is a component of the Kubernetes
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{{< glossary_tooltip text="control plane" term_id="control-plane" >}} that exposes the Kubernetes API.
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The API server is the front end for the Kubernetes control plane.
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The main implementation of a Kubernetes API server is [kube-apiserver](/docs/reference/generated/kube-apiserver/).
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kube-apiserver is designed to scale horizontally—that is, it scales by deploying more instances.
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You can run several instances of kube-apiserver and balance traffic between those instances.
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