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Documentation

Learn how to use Kubernetes with the use of walkthroughs, samples, and reference documentation. You can even help contribute to the docs!

Community

If you need help, you can connect with other Kubernetes users and the Kubernetes authors, attend community events, and watch video presentations from around the web.

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Read the latest news for Kubernetes and the containers space in general, and get technical how-tos hot off the presses.

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Native Tools
- Kubectl
- Dashboard
Third-Party Tools
- Helm
- Kompose

Native Tools

Kubectl

kubectl is the command line tool for Kubernetes. It controls the Kubernetes cluster manager.

Dashboard

Dashboard, the web-based user interface of Kubernetes, allows you to deploy containerized applications to a Kubernetes cluster, troubleshoot them, and manage the cluster and its resources itself.

Third-Party Tools

Helm

Kubernetes Helm is a tool for managing packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources, aka Kubernetes charts.

Use Helm to:

Find and use popular software packaged as Kubernetes charts
Share your own applications as Kubernetes charts
Create reproducible builds of your Kubernetes applications
Intelligently manage your Kubernetes manifest files
Manage releases of Helm packages

Kompose

Kompose is a tool to help users familiar with Docker Compose move to Kubernetes.

Use Kompose to:

Translate a Docker Compose file into Kubernetes objects
Go from local Docker development to managing your application via Kubernetes
Convert v1 or v2 Docker Compose yaml files or Distributed Application Bundles

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