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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 | ||
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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. | ||
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It is designed to scale horizontally -- that is, it scales by deploying more instances. See [Building High-Availability Clusters](/docs/admin/high-availability/). | ||
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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. |