• Primary concepts
• Further reading

Getting started guides are in getting-started-guides.

There are example files and walkthroughs in the examples folder.

If you're developing Kubernetes, docs are in the devel folder.

Design docs are in design.

API objects are explained at http://kubernetes.io/third_party/swagger-ui/.

• Overview (overview.md): A brief overview of Kubernetes concepts.

• Nodes (node.md): A node is a worker machine in Kubernetes.

• Pods (pods.md): A pod is a tightly-coupled group of containers with shared volumes.

• The Life of a Pod (pod-states.md): Covers the intersection of pod states, the PodStatus type, the life-cycle of a pod, events, restart policies, and replication controllers.

• Replication Controllers (replication-controller.md): A replication controller ensures that a specified number of pod "replicas" are running at any one time.

• Services (services.md): A Kubernetes service is an abstraction which defines a logical set of pods and a policy by which to access them.

• Volumes (volumes.md): A Volume is a directory, possibly with some data in it, which is accessible to a Container.

• Labels (labels.md): Labels are key/value pairs that are attached to objects, such as pods. Labels can be used to organize and to select subsets of objects.

• Accessing the API (accessing_the_api.md): Ports, IPs, proxies, and firewall rules.

• Kubernetes Web Interface (ui.md): Accessing the Kubernetes web user interface.

• Kubectl Command Line Interface (kubectl.md): The kubectl command line reference.

• Roadmap (roadmap.md): The set of supported use cases, features, docs, and patterns that are required before Kubernetes 1.0.

• Glossary (glossary.md): Terms and concepts.

• Annotations (annotations.md): Attaching arbitrary non-identifying metadata.

• API Conventions (api-conventions.md): Defining the verbs and resources used in the Kubernetes API.

• Authentication Plugins (authentication.md): The current and planned states of authentication tokens.

• Authorization Plugins (authorization.md): Authorization applies to all HTTP requests on the main apiserver port. This doc explains the available authorization implementations.

• API Client Libraries (client-libraries.md): A list of existing client libraries, both supported and user-contributed.

• Kubernetes Container Environment (container-environment.md): Describes the environment for Kubelet managed containers on a Kubernetes node.

• DNS Integration with SkyDNS (dns.md): Resolving a DNS name directly to a Kubernetes service.

• Identifiers (identifiers.md): Names and UIDs explained.

• Images (images.md): Information about container images and private registries.

• Logging (logging.md): Pointers to logging info.

• Namespaces (namespaces.md): Namespaces help different projects, teams, or customers to share a kubernetes cluster.

• Networking (networking.md): Pod networking overview.

• OpenVSwitch GRE/VxLAN networking (ovs-networking.md): Using OpenVSwitch to set up networking between pods across Kubernetes nodes.

• The Kubernetes Resource Model (resources.md): Provides resource information such as size, type, and quantity to assist in assigning Kubernetes resources appropriately.

• Using Salt to configure Kubernetes (salt.md): The Kubernetes cluster can be configured using Salt.