KubeZero - Zero Down Time Kubernetes platform

KubeZero is a pre-configured collection of components deployed onto a bare Kubernetes cluster. All chosen components are 100% organic OpenSource.

Design goals

• Cloud provider agnostic, bare-metal / self-hosted possible
• No vendor lock in
• No closed source solutions
• No premium services / subscriptions required
• Staying to upstream projects as close as possible
• Minimal custom code
• Work within each community / give back

Components

Network / CNI

• Calico using VxLAN as default backend

Certificate management

• cert-manager incl. a local self-signed cluster CA

Metrics / Alerting

• Prometheus / Grafana

Logging

• Fluent-bit
• Fluentd
• ElasticSearch
• Kibana

Dashboard

• see ArgoCD

Storage

• EBS external CSI storage provider
• EFS external CSI storage provider
• LocalVolumes
• LocalPath

Ingress

• AWS Network Loadbalancer
• Istio providing Public and Private Envoy proxies
• HTTP(s) and TCP support
• Real client source IPs available

Service Mesh ( optional )

KubeZero vs. EKS

Controller nodes used for various admin controllers

KIAM incl. blocked access to meta-data service