# Kubernetes Documentation

**Note**
This documentation is current for 0.19.0.

Documentation for previous releases is available in their respective branches:
   * [v0.18.1](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/release-0.18/docs)
   * [v0.17.1](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/release-0.17/docs)

* The [User's guide](user-guide.md) is for anyone who wants to run programs and services on an exisiting Kubernetes cluster.

* The [Cluster Admin's guide](cluster-admin-guide.md) is for anyone setting up a Kubernetes cluster or administering it.

* The [Developer guide](developer-guide.md) is for anyone wanting to write programs that access the kubernetes API,
 write plugins or extensions, or modify the core code of kubernetes.

* The [Kubectl Command Line Interface](kubectl.md) is a detailed reference on the `kubectl` CLI.

* The [API object documentation](http://kubernetes.io/third_party/swagger-ui/) is a detailed description of all fields found in core API objects.

* An overview of the [Design of Kubernetes](design)

* There are example files and walkthroughs in the [examples](../examples) folder.


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