Kubernetes API Server

Master

• /var/log/kube-apiserver.log - API Server, responsible for serving the API

• Kubernetes (snap install): snap install kube-apiserver

snap info kube-apiserver

To enable RBAC, start the apiserver with --authorization-mode=RBAC

• kube-apiserver --help
• kube-apiserver --authorization-mode=Example,RBAC --other-options --more-options

Related terms

• Kubernetes API
• kube-proxy
• Kubernetes Metrics Server, Kube-state-metrics (KSM)
• Kubernetes Downward API
• --event-ttl
• EKS control plane logging

News

• May 2022 Kubernetes 1.24 Efficient Watch Resumption: Watch can be efficiently resumed after kube-apiserver reboot.

See also

• Kubernetes API Server, kube-apiserver, system:bootstrappers, --event-ttl, --enable-admission-plugins, snap info kube-apiserver
• Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API server, EKS API, apiVersion:, kubectl api-resources, kubectl api-versions, kind:, Kubernetes API endpoint, 6443, 10250 (kubelet) kube-apiserver, /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml, valueFrom, /var/log/kube-apiserver.log, /api/v1/, k8s.io, API Priority and Fairness

https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/