bigheader: "Concepts"
abstract: "Detailed explanations of Kubernetes system concepts and abstractions."
toc:
- docs/concepts/index.md

- title: Overview
  section:
  - docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes.md
  - docs/concepts/overview/components.md
  - title: Working with Kubernetes Objects
    section:
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/kubernetes-objects.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/labels.md
    - docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations.md
  - docs/concepts/overview/kubernetes-api.md

- title: Containers
  section:
  - docs/concepts/containers/images.md
  - docs/concepts/containers/container-lifecycle-hooks.md

- title: Workloads
  section:
  - title: Pods
    section:
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-overview.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-lifecycle.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/pods/init-containers.md
  - title: Controllers
    section:
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/statefulset.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/petset.md
    - docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/garbage-collection.md
  - title: Jobs
    section:
    - docs/concepts/jobs/run-to-completion-finite-workloads.md

- title: Cluster Administration
  section:
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/manage-deployment.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/networking.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/network-plugins.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/logging.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/audit.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/resource-usage-monitoring.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/out-of-resource.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/multiple-clusters.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/federation.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/federation-service-discovery.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/guaranteed-scheduling-critical-addon-pods.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/static-pod.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/sysctl-cluster.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/access-cluster.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/authenticate-across-clusters-kubeconfig.md
  - docs/concepts/cluster-administration/master-node-communication.md

- title: Storage
  section:
  - docs/concepts/storage/volumes.md

- title: Services, Load Balancing, and Networking
  section:
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/dns-pod-service.md
  - docs/concepts/services-networking/connect-applications-service.md

- title: Configuration
  section:
  - docs/concepts/configuration/overview.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/container-command-args.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/manage-compute-resources-container.md
  - docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node.md

- title: Policies
  section:
  - docs/concepts/policy/container-capabilities.md
  - docs/concepts/policy/resource-quotas.md
