Clarification on v1 API groups

cameronezrajones

Hello,

I'm reading the "v1 API Group" page in the "06. API OBJECTS" section. One of the things I read is that "Currently, there are eight v1 groups." I'm confused here as to what those groups are. I see four of them listed on the page, but I don't see how they tie in to this concept of API groups.

I did run the command that gets the API groups on my lab cluster, and this is what I got:

$ curl $APISERVER/apis --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" --insecure

{
  "kind": "APIGroupList",
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "groups": [
    {
      "name": "apiregistration.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "apiregistration.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "apiregistration.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "apps",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "apps/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "apps/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "events.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "events.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "events.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "authentication.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "authentication.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "authentication.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "authorization.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "authorization.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "authorization.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "autoscaling",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "autoscaling/v2",
          "version": "v2"
        },
        {
          "groupVersion": "autoscaling/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "autoscaling/v2",
        "version": "v2"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "batch",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "batch/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "batch/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "certificates.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "certificates.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "certificates.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "networking.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "networking.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "networking.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "policy",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "policy/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "policy/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "rbac.authorization.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "storage.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "storage.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        },
        {
          "groupVersion": "storage.k8s.io/v1beta1",
          "version": "v1beta1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "storage.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "admissionregistration.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "apiextensions.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "apiextensions.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "apiextensions.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "scheduling.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "scheduling.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "scheduling.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "coordination.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "coordination.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "coordination.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "node.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "node.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "node.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "discovery.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "discovery.k8s.io/v1",
          "version": "v1"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "discovery.k8s.io/v1",
        "version": "v1"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io",
      "versions": [
        {
          "groupVersion": "flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3",
          "version": "v1beta3"
        },
        {
          "groupVersion": "flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta2",
          "version": "v1beta2"
        }
      ],
      "preferredVersion": {
        "groupVersion": "flowcontrol.apiserver.k8s.io/v1beta3",
        "version": "v1beta3"
      }
    }
  ]
}

As you can see, I'm getting way more than eight groups back. Should I take this to mean that the "eight v1 groups" mentioned in the lesson are out of date? I want to make sure that I understand the concepts fully.

Thank you!

chrispokorni

Hi @cameronezrajones,

This is a good observation, and it is the result of rapid changes in the Kubernetes API. As the framework matures, new API features are being added constantly, and such discrepancies may be visible in some areas of the course lectures.

Regards,
-Chris