Cluster Administration

In KubeSphere, you set a cluster’s configurations and configure its features using the interactive web console or the built-in native command-line tool kubectl. As a cluster administrator, you are responsible for a series of tasks, including cordoning and adding labels to nodes, controlling cluster visibility, monitoring cluster status, setting cluster-wide alerting and notification rules, as well as configuring storage and log collection solutions.

Note

Multi-cluster management is not covered in this chapter. For more information about this feature, see Multi-cluster Management.

Node Management

Monitor node status and learn how to add node labels or taints.

Cluster Status Monitoring

Monitor how a cluster is functioning based on different metrics, including physical resources, etcd, and APIServer.

Application Resources Monitoring

Monitor application resources across the cluster, such as the number of Deployments and CPU usage of different projects.

Persistent Volumes and Storage Classes

Learn basic concepts of PVs, PVCs and storage classes, and demonstrate how to manage storage classes and PVCs in KubeSphere.

Cluster-wide Alerting and Notification

Alertmanager in KubeSphere

Learn how to manage alerts with Alertmanager in KubeSphere.

Notification Manager

Learn how to manage notifications with Notification Manager.

Alerting Policies (Node Level)

Learn how to set alerting policies for nodes.

Alerting Messages (Node Level)

Learn how to view alerting messages for nodes.

Cluster Settings

Cluster Visibility and Authorization

Learn how to set up cluster visibility and authorization.

Log Collections

Introduction

Learn the basics of cluster log collections, including tools and general steps.

Add Elasticsearch as a Receiver

Learn how to add Elasticsearch to receive logs, events or auditing logs.

Add Kafka as a Receiver

Learn how to add Kafka to receive logs, events or auditing logs.

Add Fluentd as a Receiver

Learn how to add Fluentd to receive logs, events or auditing logs.

Platform Settings

Customize Basic Information

Customize platform settings such as logo and title.

Notification Management

Configure Email Notifications

Configure your email server and add recipients to receive email notifications from alerting policies, kube-events, and kube-auditing.

Configure DingTalk

Configure WeCom

Configure Slack Notifications

Configure Slack notifications and add channels to receive notifications from alerting policies, kube-events, and kube-auditing.

Configure Webhook

Cluster Shutdown and Restart

Learn how to gracefully shut down your cluster and restart it.