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Manage your Kubernetes cluster with Northflank
You can monitor and manage your cluster from the clusters page in your account settings. The total number of clusters and resources provisioned in your cloud provider accounts is displayed at the top of your clusters page.
![Viewing the details of a cluster in the Northflank application](https://assets.northflank.com/documentation/v1/application/cloud-providers/manage-and-use-your-kubernetes-cluster-with-Northflank/cluster-details.png)
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Deploy on your cluster
To begin using your chosen cloud provider on Northflank create a new project and select your cluster as the provider. Every resource created and used in the project will be built, deployed, and served from your cluster.
Workloads will be automatically scheduled to nodes and node pools based on load and capacity.
Monitor your cluster
You can monitor your cluster from by opening the overview from the clusters page in account settings:
- Details: see details of the cluster such as region, Kubernetes version, and subnets, as well as cluster configuration options including build infrastructure and resource request modifiers
- Observe: contains metrics for the cluster, with breakdowns by node pool and node
- Node pools: view and edit your node pool configurations
- Components: see the status of the Northflank platform components
- Cluster history: review the history of the cluster state, for example to check when an update took place and how long it took
- Projects: a list of projects deployed on the cluster
Observe cluster usage
The observe page of a cluster shows an overview of all cluster resources with combined usage metrics for vCPU, memory, number of pods, and network usage.
You can see each node pool deployed to the cluster, with the node pool ID and node type.
Each node pool also lists the nodes deployed in it, and the used resources (vCPU
, Memory
) compared to the requested resources (rCPU
, rMem
) for each node.
![Viewing the metrics and deployed nodes of a cluster in the Northflank application](https://assets.northflank.com/documentation/v1/application/cloud-providers/manage-and-use-your-kubernetes-cluster-with-Northflank/cluster-observe.png)
Scale nodes and node pools
You can add, scale, and delete node pools on the node pools page in your cluster overview.
See deploy and scale node pools on a Kubernetes cluster with Northflank for more information on configuring nodes and node pools.
Upgrade Kubernetes
Kubernetes upgrades are managed by Northflank with no user intervention required, using our advanced upgrade system.
Upgrades to Kubernetes aim to minimise downtime, as workloads are redeployed according to your configuration for services and addons.
A Kubernetes upgrade follows the steps:
- The master control plane is upgraded
- Existing node pools are duplicated
- Workloads are redeployed onto the new node pools in accordance with your configured redeployment strategy
- Old node pools are terminated and the upgrade is complete
If you would like to discuss setting maintenance windows for your clusters, contact support@northflank.com.
Delete a cluster
You can delete a cluster from the cluster's overview by using the delete button. This will remove the entire cluster and associated resources from your cloud provider account. You must delete all projects hosted on the cluster first.
Next steps
Create a Kubernetes cluster
Create a new Northflank-managed cluster on a cloud provider.
Integrate your Google account
Integrate your Google account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Integrate your Amazon account
Integrate your Amazon account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).
Integrate your Azure account
Integrate your Microsoft Azure account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Integrate your Civo account
Integrate your Civo account to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on Civo Kubernetes.