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The Bitnami Kubernetes Production Runtime (BKPR) is a collection of services that makes it easy to run production workloads in Kubernetes.
Think of Bitnami Kubernetes Production Runtime as a curated collection of the services you would need to deploy on top of your Kubernetes cluster to enable logging, monitoring, certificate management, automatic discovery of Kubernetes resources via public DNS servers and other common infrastructure needs.
BKPR is available for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) clusters.
BKPR is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
BKPR has been tested to work on a bare-minimum Kubernetes cluster with three kubelet nodes with 2 CPUs and 8GiB of RAM each.
The following matrix shows which Kubernetes versions and platforms are supported:
| BKPR release | AKS versions | GKE versions | EKS versions |
|---|---|---|---|
1.3 (deprecated) |
1.11-1.12 |
1.11-1.12 |
1.11 |
1.4 (deprecated) |
1.14-1.15 |
1.14-1.15 |
1.14 |
1.5 (deprecated) |
1.14-1.15 |
1.14-1.15 |
1.14-1.15 |
1.6 (deprecated) |
1.15-1.16 |
1.15-1.16 |
1.15-1.16 |
1.7 |
1.16-1.17 |
1.16-1.17 |
1.16-1.17 |
1.8 (current) |
1.17-1.18 |
1.17-1.18 |
1.17-1.18 |
1.9 (planned) |
1.18 |
1.18-1.19 |
1.18-1.19 |
Note that the (experimental) generic platform is e2e tested on GKE.
Please use the installation guide to install the kubeprod binary before installing BKPR to your cluster.
See the separate FAQ and roadmap documents.
The versioning used in BKPR is described here.
BKPR leverages the following components to achieve its mission. For more in-depth documentation about them please read the components documentation.
- Elasticsearch: A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine
- Fluentd: A data collector for unified logging layer
- Kibana: A visualization tool for Elasticsearch data
- Prometheus: A monitoring system and time series database
- Alertmanager: An alert manager and router
- Grafana: An open source metric analytics & visualization suite
- NGINX Ingress Controller: A Controller to satisfy requests for Ingress objects
- cert-manager: A Kubernetes add-on to automate the management and issuance of TLS certificates from various sources
- OAuth2 Proxy: A reverse proxy and static file server that provides authentication using Providers (Google, GitHub, and others) to validate accounts by email, domain or group
- ExternalDNS: A component to synchronize exposed Kubernetes Services and Ingresses with DNS providers
The following matrix shows which versions of each component are used and supported in the most recent releases of BKPR:
| Component | BKPR 1.6 | BKPR 1.7 | BKPR 1.8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alertmanager | 0.21.x |
0.21.x |
0.21.x |
| cert-manager | 0.14.x |
0.16.x |
0.16.x |
| configmap-reload | 0.3.x |
0.5.x |
0.5.x |
| Elasticsearch | 7.8.x |
7.12.x |
7.12.x |
| Elasticsearch Curator | 5.8.x |
5.8.x |
5.8.x |
| Elasticsearch Exporter | 1.1.x |
1.1.x |
1.1.x |
| ExternalDNS | 0.7.x |
0.7.x |
0.7.x |
| Fluentd | 1.11.x |
1.12.x |
1.12.x |
| Grafana | 7.0.x |
7.5.x |
7.5.x |
| Kibana | 7.8.x |
7.12.x |
7.12.x |
| kube-state-metrics | 1.9.x |
1.9.x |
1.9.x |
| Node exporter | 1.0.x |
1.1.x |
1.1.x |
| NGINX Ingress Controller | 0.33.x |
0.34.x |
0.34.x |
| oauth2_proxy | 5.1.x |
6.0.x |
6.0.x |
| Prometheus | 2.19.x |
2.26.x |
2.26.x |
Note BKPR 1.8 is a catch up release. Patch versions might be updated, but no ther significant changes have been applied. This was done to enable ourselves to catch up with the latest Kubernetes releases for subsequent BKPR releases.
If you would like to become an active contributor to this project please follow the instructions provided in contribution guidelines.