Apex Cluster Manager

Managing containerized applications in Kubernetes can feel overwhelming. Apex Cluster Manager makes it easy to manage your containerized apps.

Features

• Simple, intuitive user interface for managing applications
• Create and manage apps with simple to use templates
• See resource utilization at the app and namespace levels
• Stop and stop an app or all the apps in a namespace
• Create, view and delete namespaces

Under the Covers

Apex Cluster Manager is built in the Apex Designer low code platform, packaged as a docker image and runs inside your Kubernetes cluster. It manages apps with stanard Kubernetes tools:

• kubectl
• helm
• Kubernetes API

Installation

Here are the steps to install Apex Cluster Manager on your local machine. Steps 1-3 are for macOS. If you are on Windows or Linux, please see the corresponding instructions on the tool websites.

1. Install kubectl: brew install kubectl

2. Install helm: brew install helm

3. Install kind: brew install kind

4. Create a kind cluster

   By default, a kind cluster only exposes a single port. To make it easy to access apps running in your cluster, you can expose additional ports on the kind cluster with a configuration file by running this command:

   curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apexdesigner/apex-cluster-manager/main/kind/Cluster.yaml | kind create cluster --config -

5. Install Apex Cluster Manager

   Use helm to install Apex Cluster Manager. Be sure to replace your.email with your email address.

   helm install apex-cluster-manager \
       https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apexdesigner/apex-cluster-manager/main/helm-charts/apex-cluster-manager-0.0.18.tgz \
       --create-namespace -n apex-cluster-manager \
       -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apexdesigner/apex-cluster-manager/main/kind/apex-cluster-manager.values.yaml \
       --set environmentVariables.adminEmails=your.email

6. It will take a while to download the image and start the pod. You can use this command to watch the status of the pod:

   kubectl get pods -n apex-cluster-manager

   When it looks like this, Apex Cluster Manager is ready to use:

   NAME                                    READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   apex-cluster-manager-6685cf54f8-rs5g6   1/1     Running   0          3h38m

7. Access Apex Cluster Manager at http://localhost:30000

Ideas and Feedback

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