Platform features
In addition to the cluster functions themselves, the ccloud platform offers features for organising your resources. This page provides an overview of the points relevant to Kubernetes.
Projects
Resources are assigned to projects. A project brings together related resources – such as all the components of an application or an environment.
When creating a cluster, you specify the project in the Finalise Details section under Select a project. You can change this later in the Settings tab, in the Cluster Info section.
As well as Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, buckets, domains and firewalls, amongst other things, can be assigned to a project.
Separate environments such as development, testing and production into separate projects. This makes it easier to allocate costs and creates a clear distinction.
Tags
Tags are keywords that can be freely assigned to organise clusters, node pools and individual nodes.
Permitted characters are letters, numbers, colons, hyphens and underscores. When creating a cluster, enter tags in the Finalise Details section and confirm each entry by pressing the Enter key. You can edit them later in the Settings tab.
In the Resources tab, you can filter node pools and nodes by tags – which is useful when a cluster contains several pools with different roles.
Cluster Management
The cluster details view is divided into four tabs:
| Tab | Content |
|---|---|
| Overview | Configuration, node pool status, network zones, control plane status, download configuration file |
| Resources | Node pools and individual nodes with search, filter and actions |
| Analytics | Utilisation charts for CPU, RAM, disk I/O and bandwidth |
| Settings | Name, project, tags, automatic upgrades, upgrade window, surge upgrades, deletion |
Via the Actions menu in the top right-hand corner, you can also access Download Config, View Nodes, Settings, Getting Started and Destroy.
Getting Started Wizard
After creating a cluster, the Getting started with Kubernetes wizard guides you through four steps:
- Create a cluster
- Connect to Kubernetes
- Check the connection
- Roll out the workload
You can access it at any time via the Actions menu under Getting Started.
Network
All resources in a data centre belong to the same VPC network and communicate via private IP addresses. A Kubernetes cluster also uses this to access other resources – such as virtual machines or managed servers – within the same VPC.
You can view your cluster’s address ranges – node, pod and service networks – in the Overview tab under the Networking section.
Invoicing
A fixed monthly price per plan applies. Only Worker Nodes are billed, along with the high-availability Control Plane (optional); the standard Control Plane is free of charge.
The Summary section in the creation dialogue already shows the expected costs – broken down by node pools and the control plane, with monthly and hourly figures for each.
See Pricing & Limits.