SALT LAKE CITY — Kubernetes administrators attending the Cloud Native Computing Foundation‘s KubeCon+CoudNativeCon North America this week should stop by Booth R13 to learn more about the launch of DevTron 1.0, a platform to manage applications on Kubernetes.
An open source project, Devtron provides an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline enabling a no code software delivery workflow for Kubernetes through Helm or GitOps with ArgoCD, according to the company.
It has been used in over 12,000 deployments and has garnered over 4,600 stars on GitHub.
Introducing the Devtron Dashboard
One major new feature for the 1.0 release this week is an extensible Kubernetes dashboard to oversee Kubernetes clusters and to manage Helm-defined Kubernetes applications.
Devtron works as a centralized hub. Built-in Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) not only secures access but provides insight into how workloads are running.
Applications can be spun up in a GitOps fashion, using ArgoCD and FluxCD and can be run across multiple clusters.
On their own, however, these tools do not provide the insight into how these applications are running, once deployed.
“Those tools leak out of their domain. They expect developers to understand the domain that they operate in, which is a DevOps domain, but developers, being developers, don’t want to care about these things,” said Devtron founder Prashant Ghildiyal, in an interview with TNS.
With Devtron, developers can deploy and manage their applications without worrying about the internal workings of Kubernetes. It even offers advanced functionality with features like canary deployments, A/B testing, and automated rollbacks. canary deployments,
Devtron includes:
- Helm Application Management
- A Resource Browser to visualize and manage different cluster resources like Nodes, Pods, ConfigMaps, and Custom Resource Definitions’ (CRDs), etc
- Single Sign On (SSO).
- Fine Grained RBAC to control the level of access users have to different Dashboard and Cluster resources.
Many Dashboards
Devtron is certainly addressing a growing issue in the Kubernetes community.
In a recent episode of the Cloud Native DevOps and Docker podcast, host Brett Fisher dedicated the show to discussing the broad field of Kubernetes dashboards.
“Over the last decade, we have had a ton of attempts at trying to nail UIs,” Fisher said in the podcast, noting there are now command line tools, open source tools, software-as-a-service offerings, desktop and web interfaces.
“There’s just a lot out there, and there’s not a ton of consensus,” he said.
Dashboards he include: Lens, Aptakube, K8Studio, K9s, CNCF’s own Kubernetes Dashboard, Portainer, Meshery and Headlamp.
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