# DCD How-Tos

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**Prerequisite**: Only contract administrators, owners, and users with **Create Kubernetes Clusters** permission can create a cluster. Other user types have **read-only** access.
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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 DCD.</td><td><a href="how-tos/set-user-privileges-k8s">set-user-privileges-k8s</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Set Up a Kubernetes Cluster</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to set up and create a cluster.</td><td><a href="how-tos/cluster_management">cluster_management</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Download Kubeconfig</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to generate and download the yaml file.</td><td><a href="how-tos/download-kubeconfig-file">download-kubeconfig-file</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Update a Cluster</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to update a cluster for node pools using the DCD.</td><td><a href="how-tos/update-a-cluster">update-a-cluster</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Delete a Cluster</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to delete a cluster from the node pools using the DCD.</td><td><a href="how-tos/delete-a-cluster">delete-a-cluster</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Create a Node Pool</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to create a node pool using the DCD.</td><td><a href="how-tos/management-of-node-pools">management-of-node-pools</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Update a Node Pool</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to update a node pool using the DCD.</td><td><a href="how-tos/update-node-pool">update-node-pool</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Delete a Node Pool</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to delete a node pool using the DCD.</td><td><a href="how-tos/delete-node-pool">delete-node-pool</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Security and User Management</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to manage user groups for node pools.</td><td><a href="how-tos/security-and-user-management">security-and-user-management</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Mount an NFS Volume</strong></mark></td><td>Learn how to mount a Network File Storage (NFS) volume in your cluster.</td><td><a href="how-tos/mount-an-nfs-volume">mount-an-nfs-volume</a></td></tr></tbody></table>