# Kubernetes API Concepts — Resource URIs

> All resource types are either scoped by the cluster (/apis/GROUP/VERSION/) or to a namespace (/apis/GROUP/VERSION/namespaces/NAMESPACE/).

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All resource types are either scoped by the cluster (/apis/GROUP/VERSION/) or to a namespace (/apis/GROUP/VERSION/namespaces/NAMESPACE/). A namespace-scoped resource type will be deleted when its namespace is deleted and access to that resource type is controlled by authorization checks on the namespace scope.

Note: core resources use /api instead of /apis and omit the GROUP path segment.

/api/v1/namespaces /api/v1/pods /api/v1/namespaces/my-namespace/pods /apis/apps/v1/deployments /apis/apps/v1/namespaces/my-namespace/deployments /apis/apps/v1/namespaces/my-namespace/deployments/my-deployment

You can also access collections of resources (for example: listing all Nodes). The following paths are used to retrieve collections and resources

GET /apis/GROUP/VERSION/RESOURCETYPE - return the collection of resources of the resource type GET /apis/GROUP/VERSION/RESOURCETYPE/NAME - return the resource with NAME under the resource type

Namespace-scoped resources

GET /apis/GROUP/VERSION/RESOURCETYPE - return the collection of all instances of the resource type across all namespaces GET /apis/GROUP/VERSION/namespaces/NAMESPACE/RESOURCETYPE - return collection of all instances of the resource type in NAMESPACE GET /apis/GROUP/VERSION/namespaces/NAMESPACE/RESOURCETYPE/NAME - return the instance of the resource type with NAME in NAMESPACE

Since a namespace is a cluster-scoped resource type, you can retrieve the list (“collection”) of all namespaces with GET /api/v1/namespaces and details about a particular namespace with GET /api/v1/namespaces/NAME.

Cluster-scoped subresource: GET /apis/GROUP/VERSION/RESOURCETYPE/NAME/SUBRESOURCE Namespace-scoped subresource: GET /apis/GROUP/VERSION/namespaces/NAMESPACE/RESOURCETYPE/NAME/SUBRESOURCE

The verbs supported for each subresource will differ depending on the object - see the API reference for more information. It is not possible to access sub-resources across multiple resources - generally a new virtual resource type would be used if that becomes necessary.

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