# Concepts LLMS index: [llms.txt](/llms.txt) --- The Concepts section helps you learn about the parts of the Kubernetes system and the abstractions Kubernetes uses to represent your , and helps you obtain a deeper understanding of how Kubernetes works. --- Section pages: - [Overview](/docs/concepts/overview/): Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services that facilitate both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available. - [Cluster Architecture](/docs/concepts/architecture/): The architectural concepts behind Kubernetes. - [Containers](/docs/concepts/containers/): Technology for packaging an application along with its runtime dependencies. - [Workloads](/docs/concepts/workloads/): Understand Pods, the smallest deployable compute object in Kubernetes, and the higher-level abstractions that help you to run them. - [Services, Load Balancing, and Networking](/docs/concepts/services-networking/): Concepts and resources behind networking in Kubernetes. - [Storage](/docs/concepts/storage/): Ways to provide both long-term and temporary storage to Pods in your cluster. - [Configuration](/docs/concepts/configuration/): Resources that Kubernetes provides for configuring Pods. - [Security](/docs/concepts/security/): Concepts for keeping your cloud-native workload secure. - [Policies](/docs/concepts/policy/): Manage security and best-practices with policies. - [Scheduling, Preemption and Eviction](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/) - [Cluster Administration](/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/): Lower-level detail relevant to creating or administering a Kubernetes cluster. - [Windows in Kubernetes](/docs/concepts/windows/): Kubernetes supports nodes that run Microsoft Windows. - [Extending Kubernetes](/docs/concepts/extend-kubernetes/): Different ways to change the behavior of your Kubernetes cluster.