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.

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.

You can monitor your cluster from by opening the overview from the clusters page in account settings:

• Details: see details of the cluster, including the state of the cluster and nodes, cloud provider, region, and Kubernetes version
• Nodes: contains the status of individual nodes, their ID and associated pool
• Node pools: view and edit node pool configurations
• Components: see the status of the cluster and 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 created on the cluster

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.

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:

1. The master control plane is upgraded
2. Existing node pools are duplicated
3. Workloads are redeployed onto the new node pools in accordance with your configured redeployment strategy
4. 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.

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.