APIServer Admission Plugins
A list of all gardener managed admission plugins together with their responsibilities
less than a minute
Architecture
The concepts behind the Gardener architecture
Backup and Restore
Understand the etcd backup and restore capabilities of Gardener
Cluster API
Understand the evolution of the Gardener API and its relation to the Cluster API
etcd
How Gardener uses the etcd key-value store
gardenadm
Bootstrapping and management of autonomous shoot clusters.
Gardener Admission Controller
Functions and list of handlers for the Gardener Admission Controller
Gardener API Server
Understand the Gardener API server extension and the resources it exposes
Gardener Controller Manager
Understand where the gardener-controller-manager runs and its functionalities
Gardener Node Agent
How Gardener bootstraps machines into worker nodes and how it installs and maintains gardener-managed node-specific components
Gardener Operator
Understand the component responsible for the garden cluster environment and its various features
Gardener Resource Manager
Set of controllers with different responsibilities running once per seed and once per shoot
Gardener Scheduler
Understand the configuration and flow of the controller that assigns a seed cluster to newly created shoots
gardenlet
Understand how the gardenlet, the primary “agent” on every seed cluster, works and learn more about the different Gardener components