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.

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

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Our tutorials, guides and explanation pages will explain how to install, configure and use Canonical Kubernetes through CAPI.

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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.