Manage Add-ons
Add-ons extend your kubestart cluster with pre-configured, tested capabilities. You can enable or disable them at any time without downtime.
Available add-ons
Section titled “Available add-ons”Monitoring
Section titled “Monitoring”| Add-on | Description |
|---|---|
| Prometheus | Metrics collection and storage for your workloads. |
| Alertmanager | Alert routing and notification management. |
| Grafana | Dashboards and visualization for metrics and logs. |
See Monitoring for setup and usage details.
Ingress controllers
Section titled “Ingress controllers”| Add-on | Description |
|---|---|
| Traefik | Modern reverse proxy with middleware support and automatic HTTPS. |
| NGINX | Widely-used ingress controller with broad ecosystem support. |
| Kong | API gateway with a plugin ecosystem for auth, rate limiting, and more. |
| HAProxy | High-performance TCP/HTTP load balancer. |
See Ingress for how add-on controllers work alongside the built-in ingress.
GitOps
Section titled “GitOps”| Add-on | Description |
|---|---|
| Flux | Continuous delivery using Git repositories as the source of truth. |
| Argo CD | Declarative GitOps with a web UI for visualizing deployments. |
Infrastructure
Section titled “Infrastructure”| Add-on | Description |
|---|---|
| cert-manager | Automatic TLS certificate provisioning via Let’s Encrypt and other issuers. |
| external-dns | Automatic DNS record management from Ingress and Service resources. |
Enable an add-on
Section titled “Enable an add-on”- Open the dashboard and select your cluster.
- Scroll to the Add-ons section.
- Toggle the add-on you want to enable.
- The add-on is deployed within a few minutes.
Disable an add-on
Section titled “Disable an add-on”Toggle the add-on off from the same cluster detail page. The add-on’s resources are removed from your cluster within a few minutes.
Add-on resource usage
Section titled “Add-on resource usage”Add-ons consume resources from your cluster’s quota. When planning your workloads, account for the resources used by enabled add-ons.
Next steps
Section titled “Next steps”- Monitoring — access Grafana dashboards and create custom panels.
- Ingress — expose services to the internet.
- Custom Domains — use your own domain names.