KubeSphere Community Edition supports deployment on any infrastructure, offering both online and offline installation, one-click cluster upgrades and scaling, and provides features such as multi-tenancy, multi-cluster management, cloud-native observability, application lifecycle management, and DevOps.

By using KubeSphere Community Edition, you will enjoy continuously iterated enterprise-grade features for free, making it easy to build the cornerstone of cloud-native.

Feature List

Feature Module Description

Cluster Management

Centralized visual management and operation of multiple Kubernetes clusters across clouds and infrastructures

Multi-Tenant Management

Logical resource isolation, network isolation, and fine-grained access control across clusters and projects

Application Management

Unified application lifecycle management, providing a unified abstraction layer for applications like Helm and Operator

K8s Resource Management

Provides a web console to interface with native Kubernetes APIs for quick creation and management of Kubernetes resources

Extension Management

Adopts a microkernel + extension architecture, allowing on-demand customization and platform capability extension

WizTelemetry Observability

Comprehensive insight into application and infrastructure performance and health status

DevOps

Provides an end-to-end workflow, integrating mainstream CI/CD tools

KubeSphere Gateway

Unified ingress management based on traffic, layer-7 load balancing, and multiple routing strategies

GateKeeper

An admission controller with flexible security policy configuration

Metrics Server

Scalable, efficient container resource metrics source, serving the Kubernetes built-in autoscaling pipeline

NVIDIA GPU Operator

Create, configure, and manage GPUs on Kubernetes

DeepSeek

Runs the DeepSeek-R1 model based on ollama, providing external API services

Grafana

An open and composable observability and data visualization platform

Loki

A scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system

Higress

An API gateway based on Istio and Envoy

OB-Operator

Manages OceanBase-related resources in Kubernetes clusters

OceanBase Dashboard

An interactive management application for OceanBase

Fluid

An open-source, Kubernetes-native distributed dataset orchestrator and accelerator

Resource Quotas

KubeSphere Community Edition supports a maximum cluster size of 128 vCPUs and only supports 1 cluster.