kube-core

kube-core is the core crate with the lowest level abstractions.
It is re-exported from kube under kube::core.

No need to depend on this directly

The standard way to get only core features is to depend on kube with default-features = false as this will bring in the minimal kube. If you need a client later, you don't then need to change your import paths.

This crate has the most extensive documentation on docs.rs/kube/core.

Contains

Core traits and types necessary for interacting with the Kubernetes API.
This crate is the rust counterpart to kubernetes/apimachinery.