PLEASE NOTE: This document applies to the HEAD of the source tree only. If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you almost certainly want the docs that go with that version.

Documentation for specific releases can be found at releases.k8s.io.

Developing Kubernetes

Docs in this directory relate to developing Kubernetes.

• On Collaborative Development (collab.md): info on pull requests and code reviews.

• Development Guide (development.md): Setting up your environment tests.

• Making release notes (making-release-notes.md): Generating release nodes for a new release.

• Hunting flaky tests (flaky-tests.md): We have a goal of 99.9% flake free tests. Here's how to run your tests many times.

• GitHub Issues (issues.md): How incoming issues are reviewed and prioritized.

• Logging Conventions (logging.md]: Glog levels.

• Pull Request Process (pull-requests.md): When and why pull requests are closed.

• Releasing Kubernetes (releasing.md): How to create a Kubernetes release (as in version) and how the version information gets embedded into the built binaries.

• Profiling Kubernetes (profiling.md): How to plug in go pprof profiler to Kubernetes.

• Instrumenting Kubernetes with a new metric (instrumentation.md): How to add a new metrics to the Kubernetes code base.

• Coding Conventions (coding-conventions.md): Coding style advice for contributors.

• Faster PR reviews (faster_reviews.md): How to get faster PR reviews.

• Getting Recent Builds (getting-builds.md): How to get recent builds including the latest builds to pass CI.