Containers & Orchestration - Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS)

Knowledge Base

Key concepts

Understanding OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes architecture
Known limits
Choosing the right OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Plan: Free or Standard
Available datacenters, worker nodes and persistent storage flavors
Exposed APIs, Kubernetes configuration and Feature gates

Getting started

Creating a cluster
Deploying an application
Deploying a Hello World application
Expose your app deployed on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service
Installing the Kubernetes Dashboard on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Installing and using Helm on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Installing WordPress on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Deploying a GPU application on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service
Managed Kubernetes objects (services, deployments, pods...)

Configuration

Configuring kubectl on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Configuring the API server flags on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Resetting an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Upgrading Kubernetes version on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Add IP restrictions on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Changing the security update policy on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Configuring the OIDC provider on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Customising IP allocation on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
How to manage nodes and node pools on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Dynamically resizing a cluster with the cluster autoscaler
Configuring the cluster autoscaler
Adding Labels & Taint on Node Pool (Node Pool template)
Cluster autoscaler example
Deploy applications to specific Nodes and Nodes Pools
Taint, cordon and drain specific Nodes and Nodes Pools
Adapt your Inotify parameters for your Managed Kubernetes Service deployments
Persistent Volumes on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service
Resizing Persistent Volumes
Configuring multi-attach persistent volumes with OVHcloud NAS-HA
Configuring multi-attach persistent volumes with Enterprise File Storage
Configuring multi-attach persistent volumes with OVHcloud Cloud Disk Array
Formating NVMe disks on IOPS nodes
Using vRack Private Network
Using vRack - Communicating between different private networks
Using a custom gateway on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Working with vRack example - Managed Kubernetes and Public Cloud instances
Working with vRack example - Communicating between different private networks
Using Floating IPs on Managed Kubernetes Service
Customizing Kube-proxy on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Customizing CoreDNS on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Customizing Cilium on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Installing Nginx Ingress on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Expose your applications using OVHcloud Public Cloud Load Balancer
Sticky sessions/Session Affinity based on Nginx Ingress on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Secure a Nginx Ingress with cert-manager on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Getting the source IP behind the LoadBalancer
How to migrate from Load Balancer for MKS (IOLB) to Public Cloud Load Balancer (Octavia)
Backup and Restore OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Cluster, Namespace and Applications using TrilioVault for Kubernetes
Backing-up an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster using CloudCasa
Backing up and restoring your Persistent Volume with Volume Snapshots on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Backing-up an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster using Velero
Backing-up Persistent Volumes using Stash
Monitoring apps with Prometheus and Grafana on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service
Collect metrics from Public Cloud instances with Prometheus on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service
Distributed tracing with Jaeger on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service
Pushing logs from a Kubernetes cluster to Logs Data Platform using Fluent Bit
Managed Kubernetes Service Audit Logs Forwarding
Monitoring GPU usage on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service
Set up the Kubernetes operator for Public Cloud Databases
Deploying a Kubernetes Operator based on Helm on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Deploying a Kubernetes Operator written in Golang on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes

Migration

Migration Guide – Moving Your Kubernetes cluster to OVHcloud
MKS Free to Standard Migration Guide
How to migrate from Load Balancer for MKS (IOLB) to Public Cloud Load Balancer (Octavia)

Tutorials

Installing Agones on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Installing Jenkins on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Using Codefresh with OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Deploying Apache Pulsar on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
How to install OpenFaaS CE on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Run Serverless containers on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes with Knative
Deploying Artifactory on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Enforcing policy management on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes with Kyverno
Scan for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations of your OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes with Trivy
Near real-time threats detection with Falco on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Sanitize your OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes with Popeye
Installing cert-manager on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Installing Keycloak, an OIDC Provider, on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Installing Istio on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Traffic management with Istio on OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes

Security

Add IP restrictions on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Changing the security update policy on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Configuring the OIDC provider on an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster
Encrypt your Secret for OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes with Sealed Secrets (Kubeseal)
Using RBAC to handle limited access to an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes cluster

Troubleshooting

ETCD Quotas, usage, troubleshooting and error
Troubleshooting permission errors when enabling persistence

Additional resources

Managed Kubernetes End-of-Sale, End-of-Service and End-of-Life policies
Managed Kubernetes - Responsibility model
Orchestration product reversibility policy
Recommended external resources
OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes - Features and roadmap
Kubernetes Plugins (CNI, CRI, CSI...) & softwares versions and reserved resources