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 Take a free course on [Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes].
 
+To use Kubernetes code as a library in other applications, see the [list of published components](https://git.k8s.io/kubernetes/staging/README.md).
+Use of the `k8s.io/kubernetes` module or `k8s.io/kubernetes/...` packages as libraries is not supported.
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 ## To start developing Kubernetes
 
 The [community repository] hosts all information about