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Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition
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Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

by Hideto Saito, Hui-Chuan Chloe Lee, Ke-Jou Carol Hsu
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
554 pages
13h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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downwardAPI

downwardAPI volume is used to expose Pod information into a container. The definition of downwardAPI is a list of items. An item contains a path and fieldRef. Kubernetes will dump the specified metadata listed in fieldRef to a file named path under mountPath and mount the <volume name> into the destination you specified. Currently supported metadata for downwardAPI volume includes:

Field path

Scope

Definition

spec.nodeName

Pod

The node that the Pod is running on

spec.serviceAccountName

Pod

The service account associating with the current Pod

metadata.name

Pod

The name of the Pod

metadata.namespace

Pod

The Namespace that the Pod belongs to

metadata.annotations

Pod

The annotations ...

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