kubesphere/kubesphere

The container platform tailored for Kubernetes multi-cloud, datacenter, and edge management

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What is KubeSphere

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KubeSphere is a distributed operating system for cloud-native application management, using Kubernetes as its kernel. It provides a plug-and-play architecture, allowing third-party applications to be seamlessly integrated into its ecosystem. KubeSphere is also a multi-tenant container platform with full-stack automated IT operation and streamlined DevOps workflows. It provides developer-friendly wizard web UI, helping enterprises to build out a more robust and feature-rich platform, which includes most common functionalities needed for enterprise Kubernetes strategy, see Feature List for details.

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Demo environment

🎮 KubeSphere Lite provides you with free, stable, and out-of-the-box managed cluster service. After registration and login, you can easily create a K8s cluster with KubeSphere installed in only 5 seconds and experience feature-rich KubeSphere.

🖥 You can view the Demo Video to get started with KubeSphere.

Features

🧩 Extensible Architecture

Designed for flexibility, supporting plugin-based extensions and seamless integrations. Easily customize and expand functionalities to meet evolving needs. Learn more.

🕸 Provisioning Kubernetes Cluster

Support deploy Kubernetes on any infrastructure, support online and air-gapped installation. Learn more.

🔗 Kubernetes Multi-cluster Management

Provide a centralized control plane to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters, and support the ability to propagate an app to multiple K8s clusters across different cloud providers.

🤖 Kubernetes DevOps

Provide GitOps-based CD solutions and use Argo CD to provide the underlying support, collecting CD status information in real time. With the mainstream CI engine Jenkins integrated, DevOps has never been easier. Learn more.

🔎 Cloud Native Observability

Multi-dimensional monitoring, events and auditing logs are supported; multi-tenant log query and collection, alerting and notification are built-in. Learn more.

🌐 Service Mesh (Istio-based)

Provide fine-grained traffic management, observability and tracing for distributed microservice applications, provides visualization for traffic topology. Learn more.

💻 App Store

Provide an App Store for Helm-based applications, and offer application lifecycle management on Kubernetes platform. Learn more.

💡 Edge Computing Platform

KubeSphere integrates KubeEdge to enable users to deploy applications on the edge devices and view logs and monitoring metrics of them on the console. Learn more.

🗃 Support Multiple Storage and Networking Solutions

Support GlusterFS, CephRBD, NFS, LocalPV solutions, and provide CSI plugins to consume storage from multiple cloud providers.

Provide Load Balancer Implementation OpenELB for Kubernetes in bare-metal, edge, and virtualization.

Provides network policy and Pod IP pools management, support Calico, Flannel, Kube-OVN

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🏢 Multi-Tenancy

Isolated workspaces with role-based access control ensure secure resource sharing across multiple tenants. Supports fine-grained permissions and quota management. Learn more.

🧠 GPU Workloads Scheduling and Monitoring

Create GPU workloads on the GUI, schedule GPU resources, and manage GPU resource quotas by tenant.

Architecture

KubeSphere 4.x adopts a microkernel + extension components architecture (codename LuBan). The core part (KubeSphere Core) only includes the essential basic functions required for system operation, with independent functional modules split and provided in the form of extension components. Users can dynamically manage the extension components during system operation. With the extension capabilities, KubeSphere can support more application scenarios and meet the needs of different users.

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Latest release

🎉 KubeSphere v4.1.2 was released! It brings enhancements and better user experience, see the Release Notes For 4.1.2 for the updates.

Installation

KubeSphere can run anywhere from on-premise datacenter to any cloud to edge. In addition, it can be deployed on any version-compatible Kubernetes cluster. KubeSphere consumes very few resources, and you can optionally install additional extensions after installation.

Quick start

Installing on K8s

Run the following commands to install KubeSphere on an existing Kubernetes cluster:

helm upgrade --install -n kubesphere-system --create-namespace ks-core https://charts.kubesphere.io/main/ks-core-1.1.3.tgz --debug --wait

KubeSphere for hosted Kubernetes services

KubeSphere is hosted on the following cloud providers, and you can try KubeSphere by one-click installation on their hosted Kubernetes services.

• KubeSphere for Amazon EKS
• KubeSphere for Azure AKS
• KubeSphere for DigitalOcean Kubernetes
• KubeSphere on QingCloud AppCenter(QKE)

You can also install KubeSphere on other hosted Kubernetes services within minutes, see the step-by-step guides to get started.

👨‍💻 No internet access? Refer to the Air-gapped Installation.

Guidance, discussion, contribution, and support

You can reach the KubeSphere community and developers via the following channels:

• Slack Channel
• Youtube
• X/Twitter

:hugs: Please submit any KubeSphere bugs, issues, and feature requests to KubeSphere GitHub Issue.

:heart_decoration: The KubeSphere team also provides efficient official ticket support to respond in hours. For more information, click KubeSphere Online Support.

Contribution

• KubeSphere Development Guide explains how to build and develop KubeSphere.
• KubeSphere Extension Development Guide explains how to develop KubeSphere extensions.

Code of conduct

Participation in the KubeSphere community is governed by the Code of Conduct.

Security

The security process for reporting vulnerabilities is described in SECURITY.md.

Who are using KubeSphere

The user case studies page includes the user list of the project. You can leave a comment to let us know your use case.

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KubeSphere is a member of CNCF and a Kubernetes Conformance Certified platform , which enriches the CNCF CLOUD NATIVE Landscape.