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Reword kube-apiserver glossary entry
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date: 2018-04-12
full_link: /docs/reference/generated/kube-apiserver/
short_description: >
Component on the master that exposes the Kubernetes API. It is the front-end for the Kubernetes control plane.
Control plane component that serves the Kubernetes API.
aka:
- kube-apiserver
tags:
- architecture
- fundamental
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Component on the master that exposes the Kubernetes API. It is the front-end for the Kubernetes control plane.
The API server is a component of the Kubernetes
{{< glossary_tooltip text="control plane" term_id="control-plane" >}} that exposes the Kubernetes API.
The API server is the front end for the Kubernetes control plane.

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It is designed to scale horizontally -- that is, it scales by deploying more instances. See [Building High-Availability Clusters](/docs/admin/high-availability/).
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The main implementation of a Kubernetes API server is [kube-apiserver](/docs/reference/generated/kube-apiserver/).
kube-apiserver is designed to scale horizontally&mdash;that is, it scales by deploying more instances.
You can run several instances of kube-apiserver and balance traffic between those instances.

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