From ae44abdd269fbd198b8952008ae3177d97a06124 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Bannister Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2019 21:27:50 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Tweak glossary entry for kube-apiserver (#16294) * Retitle glossary entry for kube-apiserver * Reword kube-apiserver glossary entry --- .../docs/reference/glossary/kube-apiserver.md | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/kube-apiserver.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/kube-apiserver.md index d6855edb38..6de64bba5f 100755 --- a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/kube-apiserver.md +++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/kube-apiserver.md @@ -1,19 +1,23 @@ --- -title: kube-apiserver +title: API server id: kube-apiserver date: 2018-04-12 full_link: /docs/reference/generated/kube-apiserver/ short_description: > - Component on the master that exposes the Kubernetes API. It is the front-end for the Kubernetes control plane. + Control plane component that serves the Kubernetes API. -aka: +aka: +- kube-apiserver tags: - architecture - fundamental --- - Component on the master that exposes the Kubernetes API. It is the front-end for the Kubernetes control plane. + The API server is a component of the Kubernetes +{{< glossary_tooltip text="control plane" term_id="control-plane" >}} that exposes the Kubernetes API. +The API server is the front end for the Kubernetes control plane. - - -It is designed to scale horizontally -- that is, it scales by deploying more instances. See [Building High-Availability Clusters](/docs/admin/high-availability/). + +The main implementation of a Kubernetes API server is [kube-apiserver](/docs/reference/generated/kube-apiserver/). +kube-apiserver is designed to scale horizontally—that is, it scales by deploying more instances. +You can run several instances of kube-apiserver and balance traffic between those instances.