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This section of the Kubernetes documentation contains pages that show how to do individual tasks. A task page shows how to do a single thing, typically by giving a short sequence of steps.

Configuring Pods and Containers

• Defining Environment Variables for a Container
• Defining a Command and Arguments for a Container
• Assigning CPU and RAM Resources to a Container
• Configuring a Pod to Use a Volume for Storage
• Distributing Credentials Securely
• Pulling an Image from a Private Registry
• Configuring Liveness and Readiness Probes
• Communicating Between Pods Running in the Same Container
• Configuring Pod Initialization
• Attaching Handlers to Container Lifecycle Events

Accessing Applications in a Cluster

• Using Port Forwarding to Access Applications in a Cluster
• Providing Load-Balanced Access to an Application in a Cluster

Debugging Applications in a Cluster

• Determining the Reason for Pod Failure

Accessing the Kubernetes API

• Using an HTTP Proxy to Access the Kubernetes API

Administering a Cluster

• Assigning Pods to Nodes
• Autoscaling the DNS Service in a Cluster
• Safely Draining a Node while Respecting Application SLOs
• Changing reclaim policy of a PersistentVolume

Managing Stateful Applications

• Upgrading from PetSets to StatefulSets
• Scaling a StatefulSet
• Deleting a StatefulSet
• Debugging a StatefulSet
• Force Deleting StatefulSet Pods

Troubleshooting

• Debugging Init Containers

What's next

If you would like to write a task page, see Creating a Documentation Pull Request.