Kubernetes 101 : API-server and API endpoints
The API-server is the entry point to the kubernetes cluster. It deals with the API endpoints.
The API objects - endpoints - are organized hierarchically.
For example the Core API is organized as below:
A REST API endpoint represents a kubernetes resource that could be accessed via "http" like the nodes API endpoint "/api/v1/nodes", or the pods API endpoint "/api/v1/pods".
Accessing the API endpoint:
We could list the nodes in a kubernetes cluster using the below command:
Alternatively, we could use the below command:
We could also list the pods in a specific namespace in a kubernetes cluster using the below command:
Which is equivalent to:
Or we could use the below to retrieve all the pods in all the namespaces:
Which is equivalent to:
We could also use the same method for listing all the namespaces in a kubernetes cluster for example:
Or, we could use:
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