# Versions in CustomResourceDefinitions — Deprecated in v1.16 in favor of apiextensions.k8s.io/v1

> apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: CustomResourceDefinition metadata: # name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: .

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apiVersion: apiextensions.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: CustomResourceDefinition metadata: # name must match the spec fields below, and be in the form: . name: crontabs.example.com spec: # group name to use for REST API: /apis// group: example.com # list of versions supported by this CustomResourceDefinition versions: name: v1beta1 # Each version can be enabled/disabled by Served flag. served: true # One and only one version must be marked as the storage version. storage: true name: v1 served: true storage: false validation: openAPIV3Schema: type: object properties: host: type: string port: type: string # The conversion section is introduced in Kubernetes 1.13+ with a default value of # None conversion (strategy sub-field set to None). conversion: # None conversion assumes the same schema for all versions and only sets the apiVersion # field of custom resources to the proper value strategy: None # either Namespaced or Cluster scope: Namespaced names: # plural name to be used in the URL: /apis/// plural: crontabs # singular name to be used as an alias on the CLI and for display singular: crontab # kind is normally the PascalCased singular type. Your resource manifests use this. kind: CronTab # shortNames allow shorter string to match your resource on the CLI shortNames: ct

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
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You can save the CustomResourceDefinition in a YAML file, then use
`kubectl apply` to create it.
```

kubectl apply -f my-versioned-crontab.yaml

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
After creation, the API server starts to serve each enabled version at an HTTP
REST endpoint. In the above example, the API versions are available at
`/apis/example.com/v1beta1` and `/apis/example.com/v1`.
```

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