I know many of you have heard of and potentially also used Nutanix Karbon in tech preview over the last x months. For those of you not familiar with Nutanix Karbon it is Nutanix tool to provision, scale and operate Kubernetes clusters.
Yesterday, 2019-03-25, Karbon 1.0, which runs as containers in Nutanix Prism Central (PC) is general available and includes e.g.:
- Karbon UI
- Support for Kubernetes versions:
- v1.11
- v1.12
- v1.13
- Multi Master Deployments – When backed by:
- A Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) deployment there can be maximum of two master nodes in an active/passive setup.
- An external load balancer there can be maximum of five master nodes
- Single Master deployments are recommended for non production use cases only.
- Kubectl Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Kibana for logging
- Prometheus Add-on for monitoring
- Scalability – Add and remove worker nodes as needed
- Node Lock-down
- Node Operating System (OS) Upgrade via Karbon UI
- Upgrade of Karbon and its associated containers providing the Karbon service.
Prerequisites
- PC 5.10.1 or later
- Prism Element (PE) 5.6.2 or later
- PE to be registered to PC
- PE Data Services IP configured
- AHV hypervisor
- DNS configured
- NTP configured
- Time zone must match between PC & PE
- Use the CentOS image provided by Nutanix – See link further down
- IP Address Management (IPAM) or Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) must have direct internet access or internet access via unauthenticated proxy setup.