# API How-Tos

All Kubernetes API instructions can be found in the main Cloud API specification file.

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Cloud API - Open API Specification file**</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cloud/v6/) |
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To access the Kubernetes API, which the cluster provides, you can download the `kubeconfig` file and use it with tools such as `kubectl`.

| [<mark style="color:blue;">**Get Kubernetes Configuration Files**</mark>](https://api.ionos.com/docs/cloud/v6/#tag/Kubernetes/operation/k8sKubeconfigGet) |
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## Quick Links

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Set User Privileges</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to set user privileges to create and manage Kubernetes cluster and node pools via the API.</td><td><a href="api-how-tos/set-user-privileges">set-user-privileges</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Retrieve Kubernetes configuration files

<mark style="color:blue;">`GET`</mark> `https://api.ionos.com/cloudapi/v6/k8s/{k8sClusterId}/kubeconfig`

Retrieve a configuration file for the specified Kubernetes cluster, in YAML or JSON format as defined in the Accept header; the default Accept header is application/yaml.

#### Path Parameters

| Name                                           | Type   | Description                              |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------- |
| k8sClusterId<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | String | The unique ID of the Kubernetes cluster. |

#### Query Parameters

| Name  | Type   | Description                                        |
| ----- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------- |
| depth | String | Controls the detail depth of the response objects. |

#### Headers

| Name              | Type    | Description                                                                                                    |
| ----------------- | ------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| X-Contract-Number | Integer | Users with multiple contracts must provide the contract number, for which all API requests are to be executed. |

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