Kre8 empowers DevOps engineers to build, deploy and monitor a Kubernetes cluster right from their desktop. The open source version enables users to configure a cluster, and then deploy the necessary resources — pods, containers, deployments and services — to the Amazon Web Services cloud. The platform features an interactive visualizer with real-time metrics on the status of your cluster.
The interactive visualizer enables developers to view the status of their cluster in realtime. Click on the individual elements within your cluster to get realtime data and metrics.
KRE8's powerful dashboard tool provides the functionality to create and delete deployments within your AWS-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
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- Kubernetes kubectl Installed
- Amazon Web Services account
- Image(s) of the Application(s) you would like to deploy
Steps 1 & 2 take AWS approximately 15 minutes to complete. While minimal user input is required, the application needs to remain open for the duration of the process, so please set aside that block of time before beginning.
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Enter AWS Credentials: Input your AWS Access Key + Secret Access Key into Kre8’s Welcome Page.
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AWS Component Creation: After selecting names for the specified components, Kre8 will communicate with AWS to create the following services: an IAM Role, a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Stack, a Cluster and three Worker Nodes
- Kubectl Configuration: Kre8 will then configure Kubectl, the official Kubernetes CLI, to communicate with your AWS Cluster
- Visualization: At this point, you will be able to visualize and monitor your AWS-hosted components on KRE8.
- Launch Pods, Services and Deployments: Enter the specifications for your desired Kubernetes components along with the Docker image of your application to deploy them to the cloud.
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