Kubee, Kubernetes, the Easy way. Single VPS Hosting and beyond

Install in no time, in your VPS:

• kubernetes, the container leader hosting platform
• and a set of integrated packaged applications (known as charts in Kubernetes)

Why Easy?

Because we are starting from the simplest Kubernetes cluster as stated in the official documentation.

The simplest Kubernetes cluster has the entire control plane and worker node services running on the same machine. You can grow that environment by adding worker nodes.

Features

Works out of the box

• Single node Kubernetes with a goal on low memory consumption. A single node can host 110 containers, that's a lot of applications.
• Zero configuration. The kubee charts being aware of each other, they are preconfigured and needs a minimal set of parameters.
• Cluster configuration. Every chart configuration is saved in a single cluster values file making it quick and easy to see the state of the cluster.
• One-shot Chart Installation. CRDs dependencies are automatically managed.
• Authentication Ready. All infra apps are automatically secured by authentication (basicAuth by default, oidc if Dex)
• Secure Ready. With the internal kubee ca, all communication are encrypted (ssl/https) and the servers get certificates that are automatically rotated.
• Ingress Ready. Access any service by setting just the hostname.

BYOC: Bring your own cloud

kubee is a Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) app that allows you to run applications using your own cloud infrastructure and resources rather than relying on a third-party vendor.

BYOC, the Next Evolution of SaaS https://thenewstack.io/saas-is-broken-why-bring-your-own-cloud-byoc-is-the-future/

App examples

• Admin Dashboard with Kubernetes Dashboard
• Certificate Provisioning and monitoring with cert-manager
• Host, System and App Monitoring with Prometheus, Alert Manager, Grafana, ...
• Cron Job
• FAAS (Function as a service) as functions are container
• Database provisioning with operator such as MariaDb, CNPG for postgres, ...
• Secret Management with Kubernetes Secret, External Secret, Vault, ...)
• Self-healing mechanism with the integrated container supervisor
• No downtime thanks to Rolling Update
• CI/CD Deployment with ArgoCd, Flux

List of Kubee Charts

Kubee Chart	Status	Kind	Category
AlertManager	stable	app	monitoring
ArgoCd	stable	app	ci-cd
BlackBox Exporter	stable	app	monitoring
Cert-Manager	stable	app	certificate
Cert-Manager Crds	stable	crds	certificate
Cluster	stable	library	cluster
Dex	stable	app	auth
External Dns	stable	app	dns
External Dns Crds	stable	crds	dns
External Secrets Charts	stable	app	secret
External Secret Crds	stable	crds	secret
Gogs	alpha	app	git
Grafana	stable	app	monitoring
Grafana Crds	stable	crds	monitoring
Healthchecks	stable	app	monitoring
K3s-ansible Cluster	beta	cluster	k3s
Keycloak	alpha	app	auth
Kuberhealthy	stable	app	test
kuberhealthy Crds	stable	crds	monitoring
Kubernetes Dashboard	stable	app	kubernetes
Kubernetes Monitoring	stable	app	kubernetes
Mailpit	stable	app	mail
Mail	alpha	app	mail
Mariadb	stable	app	database
Node Exporter	deprecated	app	monitoring
Oauth2-Proxy	stable	app	auth
Postal	stable	app	mail
Prometheus	stable	app	monitoring
Prometheus Adapter	alpha	app	monitoring
Prometheus Crds	stable	crds	monitoring
PushGateway	stable	app	monitoring
Traefik	stable	app	proxy
Traefik Crds	deprecated	crds	proxy
Traefik Forward Auth	deprecated	app	auth
Trust manager crds chart	stable	crds	certificate
Vault	stable	app	secret
Whoami	stable	app	http

Note that you are not limited to Kubee Charts. You can install any Helm chart or Kubernetes Manifest, but you would need to discover the configuration yourself.

To make your charts, kubee compatible and reuse the configuration of dependent charts, you can read the kubee chart documentation.

Steps

Installation

On Mac / Linux / Windows WSL with HomeBrew

brew install --HEAD eraldyhq/tap/kubee

Getting Started

See How to create a cluster and install applications

Contribute

See Contribute/Dev