KubeSphere

What is KubeSphere

KubeSphere is an enterprise-grade multi-tenant container management platform that built on Kubernetes. It provides an easy-to-use UI for users to manage computing resources with a few clicks, which reduces the learning curve and empowers the DevOps teams. It greatly reduces the complexity of the daily work of development, testing, operation and maintenance, aiming to alleviate the pain points of Kubernetes' storage, network, security and ease of use, etc.

See this document that describes the KubeSphere landscape and details.

Features

KubeSphere Advanced Edition 2.0.2 provides an easy-to-use console with the awesome user experience that allows you to quickly get started with a container management platform. KubeSphere provides and supports following core features:

Workload management
Service mesh (Istio-based)
DevOps
Source to Image
Multi-tenant management
Multi-dimensional and Multi-tenant Monitoring, Logging, Alerting, Notification
Service and network management
Application template and repository
Infrastructure management, image registry management
Integrate Harbor and GitLab
LB controller for Kubernetes on bare metal (Porter), cloud LB plugin
Support GPU node

It also supports multiple open source storage and high-performance cloud storage as the persistent storage services, as well as supports multiple open source network plugins.

Note:

See the Screenshots of KubeSphere to have a most intuitive understanding of KubeSphere dashboard and features.

See this document that elaborates on the KubeSphere features and services from a professional point of view.

Architecture

KubeSphere adopts the separation of front and back ends, each component is drawn in the architecture diagram below. KubeSphere can run anywhere from on-premise datacenter to any cloud to edge. In addition, it can be deployed on any Kubernetes distribution.

Latest Release

KubeSphere Advanced Edition 2.0.2 was released on July 9th, 2019. See the Release Notes For 2.0.2 to preview the updates.

Installation

Minimum Requirements

Operating Systems
- CentOS 7.5 (64 bit)
- Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 LTS (64 bit)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.4 (64 bit)
- Debian Stretch 9.5 (64 bit)
Hardware
- CPU：8 Core, Memory：16 G, Disk Space：100 G

All-in-One

All-in-One: For those who are new to KubeSphere and looking for the fastest way to install and experience the dashboard. Execute following commands to download and install KubeSphere in a single node.

$ curl -L https://kubesphere.io/download/stable/advanced-2.0.2 > advanced-2.0.2.tar.gz && tar -zxf advanced-2.0.2.tar.gz && cd kubesphere-all-advanced-2.0.2/scripts
$ ./install.sh

Choose "1) All-in-one" to trigger the installation. Generally, you can install it directly without any configuration. For details please reference All-in-One.

Click here to preview the installation demo.

Multi-Node

Multi-Node is used for installing KubeSphere on multiple instances, supports for installing a highly available cluster in a mission-critical environment. Multi-node installation requires pre-configuration steps, see Multi-Node Guide.

To start using KubeSphere

Quick Start

The Quick Start Guide provides 12 quick-start tutorials to walk you through the process and common manipulation in KubeSphere, with a quick overview of the core features of KubeSphere that helps you to get familiar with it.

Documentation

To start developing KubeSphere

The development guide hosts all information about building KubeSphere from source, git workflow, how to contribute code and how to test.

RoadMap

Currently, KubeSphere has released the following 4 major editions. The future releases will include Big data, AI, Multicluster, QingCloud SDN, etc.

Community Edition => Express Edition => Advanced Edition 1.0.0 => Advanced Edition 2.0.x

Support, Discussion, and Community

If you need any help with KubeSphere, please join us at Slack channel.

Please submit any KubeSphere bugs, issues, and feature requests to KubeSphere GitHub Issue.

Contributing to the project

All members of the KubeSphere community must abide by Code of Conduct. Only by respecting each other can we develop a productive, collaborative community.

How to submit a pull request to KubeSphere? See Pull Request Instruction.

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