Flowchart

This topic describes the steps that are involved when you use Container Service.

Background information

The flowchart consists of the following steps:

1. Grant roles to your account.
   For more information, see Grant roles to Alibaba Cloud accounts.
2. Create a cluster.
   • To create a dedicated Kubernetes cluster, see Create a Kubernetes cluster.
   • To create a managed Kubernetes cluster, see Create a managed Kubernetes cluster.
   • To create a serverless Kubernetes cluster, see Create a Serverless Kubernetes cluster.
3. Create an application from an image or an orchestration template.
   You can use an existing image or orchestration template, or create a new image or orchestration template.

   • To create an application from an image, see Create deployments by using images.
   • To create an application from a YAML file, see Create a Linux application by using an orchestration template.

   Note If your application is based on multiple services created from different images, we recommend that you use a YAML file to deploy the application.
4. View the application status and information about the View a service and View the pods of a Kubernetes cluster.