Using KubeNow you can rapidly deploy, scale, and tear down your Kubernetes clusters on any cloud.
Rather than providing an all-in-one tool for provisioning a Kubernetes cluster (e.g. Juju and Kubespray), KubeNow comes as a thin layer on top of Terraform, Packer, Ansible and kubeadm. Following this approach we aim to provide a simple, light-weight, tool for Kubernetes provisioning, while making DevOps transparent and fun.
Deploying a KubeNow cluster you will get:
- A Kubernetes cluster up and running in less than 5 minutes (provisioned with kubeadm)
- Weave networking
- Traefik HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer
- Cloudflare dynamic DNS integration
This kind of deployment is particularly convenient, as only the master node, and the edge nodes (that run Traefik) need to be associated to public IPs (which can be scarce). Therefore, the end user will access the microservices running in the Kubernetes nodes, through a edge node that will act as a reverse proxy. The DNS service will loadbalance the requests over the edge nodes.
Want to try KubeNow? You can get started following the tutorials in the documentation:
- Kubernetes
- High Availability
- Scaling (it lacks documentation, but it should work)
- Autoscaling
- OpenStack
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon Web Services
- Local
- Bare Metal
- Traefik
- Weave
- Spark