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Version: v1.3

Addon management

You can get more capabilities from KubeVela ecosystem by installing addons.

Manage the addon via UI

Users with addon management permissions can enter the addon management page to enable or disable addons.

addon list

In the addon list, you can get the status of the addon and other info. Click the addon name could open the addon detail page, you can get the version list, definitions provided by the addon, and the readme message.

addon detail

Select a version and deployed clusters, you can click the enable button to install this addon.

For enabled addons, if no applications to use definitions, you can click the disable button to uninstall it.

Manage the addon via CLI

List Addons

By default, the following command lists addons from a default addon registry (https://addons.kubevela.net) maintained by KubeVela team.

This command will show all available versions of every addon.

$ vela addon list
NAME REGISTRY DESCRIPTION AVAILABLE-VERSIONS STATUS
ocm-gateway-manager-addon KubeVela ocm-gateway-manager-addon is the OCM addon automates the cluster-gateway apiserver. [1.3.2, 1.3.0, 1.1.11] disabled
rollout KubeVela Provides basic batch publishing capability. [1.3.0, 1.2.4, 1.2.3] disabled
terraform-baidu KubeVela Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Baidu Cloud [1.0.1, 1.0.0] disabled
terraform-tencent KubeVela Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Tencent Cloud [1.0.1, 1.0.0] disabled
model-serving KubeVela Enable serving for models [1.0.0] disabled
model-training KubeVela Enable training for models [1.0.0] disabled
terraform KubeVela Terraform Controller is a Kubernetes Controller for Terraform. [1.0.6] disabled
terraform-aws KubeVela Kubernetes Terraform Controller for AWS [1.0.1, 1.0.0] disabled
terraform-azure KubeVela Kubernetes Terraform Controller for Azure [1.0.1, 1.0.0] disabled
terraform-gcp KubeVela Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for Google Cloud Platform [1.0.1, 1.0.0] disabled
dex KubeVela Enable dex for login [0.6.5] disabled
ocm-hub-control-plane KubeVela ocm-hub-control-plane can install OCM hub control plane to the central cluster. [0.6.0] disabled
terraform-ucloud KubeVela Kubernetes Terraform Controller Provider for UCloud [1.0.1, 1.0.0] disabled
fluxcd KubeVela Extended workload to do continuous and progressive delivery [1.1.0, 1.0.0] disabled
velaux KubeVela KubeVela User Experience (UX). An extensible, application-oriented delivery and management Dashboard. [v1.3.0, v1.3.0-beta.2, 1.2.4] enabled (v1.3.0)
terraform-alibaba KubeVela Kubernetes Terraform Controller for Alibaba Cloud [1.0.2, 1.0.1] disabled

Install Addon

$ vela addon enable fluxcd
I0111 21:45:24.553174 89345 apply.go:106] "creating object" name="addon-fluxcd" resource="core.oam.dev/v1beta1, Kind=Application"
I0111 21:45:25.258914 89345 apply.go:106] "creating object" name="helm" resource="core.oam.dev/v1beta1, Kind=ComponentDefinition"
I0111 21:45:25.342731 89345 apply.go:106] "creating object" name="kustomize-json-patch" resource="core.oam.dev/v1beta1, Kind=TraitDefinition"
I0111 21:45:25.382201 89345 apply.go:106] "creating object" name="kustomize-patch" resource="core.oam.dev/v1beta1, Kind=TraitDefinition"
I0111 21:45:25.411723 89345 apply.go:106] "creating object" name="kustomize" resource="core.oam.dev/v1beta1, Kind=ComponentDefinition"
I0111 21:45:25.625815 89345 apply.go:106] "creating object" name="kustomize-strategy-merge" resource="core.oam.dev/v1beta1, Kind=TraitDefinition"
I0111 21:45:25.660129 89345 apply.go:106] "creating object" name="component-uischema-helm" resource="/v1, Kind=ConfigMap"
Addon: fluxcd enabled Successfully.

Install with specified version

You can choose one special version of this addon by add --version flag in this command. eg:

vela addon enable fluxcd --version=1.0.0

By default, this command will install this addon in all managed-clusters.You can use --cluster flag to choose specific clusters. eg:

vela addon enable <addon-name> --clusters={cluster1,cluster2}

You can view the new component or trait types added by vela component or vela trait. You can also find more details about built-in addon docs.

Uninstall Addon

Please make sure this addon along with the capabilities is no longer used in any of your applications.

$ vela addon disable fluxcd
Successfully disable addon:fluxcd

List Registry

$ vela addon registry list 
Name Type URL
KubeVela helm https://addons.kubevela.net

Add Registry

$ vela addon registry add experimental --type=helm --endpoint=https://addons.kubevela.net/experimental/
Successfully add an addon registry experimental

Delete Registry

$ vela addon registry delete experimental
Successfully delete an addon registry experimental

Enable Addon offline

For some reason, if your cluster network cannot request the official addon registry you can enable an addon with a local dir. eg:

$ ls
README.md fluxcd ocm-cluster-manager terraform terraform-alibaba terraform-aws terraform-azure velaux

$ vela addon enable velaux/
Addon: velaux enabled Successfully

Please notice that, while a addon installing cluster maybe still need pull some images or helm charts.If your cluster cannot reach these resources please refer docs to do complete installation without Internet.

Make your own addon

Refer to extension documents to learn how to make your own addon and registry.