Canonical Kubernetes documentation

Canonical Kubernetes is a performant, lightweight, secure and opinionated distribution of Kubernetes which includes everything needed to create and manage a scalable cluster suitable for all use cases.

You can find out more about Canonical Kubernetes on this overview page or see a more detailed explanation in our architecture documentation.

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Our tutorials, How To guides and other pages will explain how to install, configure and use the Canonical Kubernetes ‘k8s’ snap.

Our tutorials, How To guides and other pages will explain how to install, configure and use the Canonical Kubernetes ‘k8s’ charm.


Project and community

Canonical Kubernetes is a member of the Ubuntu family. It’s an open source project which welcomes community involvement, contributions, suggestions, fixes and constructive feedback.