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# DCD How-Tos

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**Prerequisites**: Make sure you have the appropriate privileges. Only Contract Owners, Administrators or Users with the **Create Kubernetes Clusters** permission can create a cluster. Other user types have read-only access.
{% endhint %}

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Set Up a Cluster**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/1AlFSZBNMIBgs7fiOwFD/managed-services/managed-kubernetes/how-tos/cluster_management.md)          | Learn how to create and configure a Kubernetes Cluster using the DCD. |
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| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Manage Node Pools**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/1AlFSZBNMIBgs7fiOwFD/managed-services/managed-kubernetes/how-tos/management-of-node-pools.md)   | Create, update and rebuild node pools.                                |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Upgrade Node Pools**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/1AlFSZBNMIBgs7fiOwFD/managed-services/managed-kubernetes/how-tos/upgrade-node-pools.md)        | Upgrade and manage node pools.                                        |
| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Download Kubeconfig**</mark>](/cloud/~/revisions/1AlFSZBNMIBgs7fiOwFD/managed-services/managed-kubernetes/how-tos/download-kubeconfig-file.md) | Generate and download the yaml file.                                  |


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