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Reference

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Tools

Kubernetes contains several built-in tools to help you work with the Kubernetes system.

Kubectl
Kubeadm
Kubefed
Minikube
Dashboard
Helm
Kompose

Kubectl

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

Kubeadm

kubeadm is the command line tool for easily provisioning a secure Kubernetes cluster on top of physical or cloud servers or virtual machines (currently in alpha).

Kubefed

kubefed is the command line tool to help you administrate your federated clusters.

Minikube

minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally on your workstation for development and testing purposes.

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.

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 Docker Compose users 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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