Overview

CCE provides multiple types of add-ons to manage extended cluster functions. You can select add-ons as required to enhance the functions and flexibility of containerized applications.

These add-ons include CCE-developed and enhanced add-ons and widely used open-source add-ons.

  • CCE-developed and enhanced add-ons are deeply integrated into CCE and optimized for specific service requirements and scenarios. They can better support complex enterprise applications and ensure high performance and reliability.

  • Open-source add-ons leverage extensive community support and mature technologies to provide users with various functions and flexible solutions to meet ever-changing service requirements.

Important

CCE uses Helm charts to deploy add-ons. To modify or upgrade an add-on, perform operations on the Add-ons page or use open add-on management APIs. Avoid making changes to add-on resources in the backend, as this may lead to abnormal add-on behavior or unexpected issues. For example, parameter settings could be overwritten after an upgrade.

Add-on pods are prioritized over service pods. When cluster resources are limited, the add-on pods can use resources that would otherwise be allocated to service pods. This may result in the eviction of service pods.

Scheduling and Elasticity Add-ons

Add-on Name

Description

Volcano Scheduler

This add-on is a scheduler for general-purpose, high-performance computing such as job scheduling, heterogeneous chip management, and job running management, serving end users through computing frameworks for different industries such as AI, big data, gene sequencing, and rendering.

CCE Cluster Autoscaler

This add-on scales in or out the workload nodes in a cluster based on pod scheduling status and resource usage.

CCE Advanced HPA

This add-on is developed by CCE. It can be used to flexibly scale in or out Deployments based on metrics such as CPU usage and memory usage.

Cloud Native Observability Add-ons

Add-on Name

Description

Cloud Native Cluster Monitoring

This add-on includes the Prometheus-operator and Prometheus components and provides easy-to-use, end-to-end Kubernetes cluster monitoring.

Cloud Native Log Collection

This add-on is developed based on Fluent Bit and OpenTelemetry for collecting logs. It supports CRD-based log collection policies, and collects and forwards standard output logs, container file logs, node logs, and Kubernetes events in a cluster.

CCE Node Problem Detector

This add-on monitors abnormal events of cluster nodes and connects to a third-party monitoring platform. It is a daemon running on each node. It collects node issues from different daemons and reports them to the API server. It can run as a DaemonSet or a daemon.

Kubernetes Metrics Server

This add-on is an aggregator for monitoring data of core cluster resources.

Grafana

This add-on is an open-source visualized data monitoring platform. It provides you with various charts and panels for real-time monitoring, analysis, and visualization of various metrics and data sources.

Cloud Native Heterogeneous Computing Add-ons

Add-on Name

Description

CCE AI Suite (NVIDIA GPU)

This add-on supports and manages GPUs in containers. Only NVIDIA drivers are supported.

Container Network Add-ons

Add-on Name

Description

CoreDNS

This add-on is a DNS server that provides domain name resolution for Kubernetes clusters through a chain add-on.

NGINX Ingress Controller

This add-on provides application-layer forwarding functions, including load balancing, SSL proxies, and HTTP routing, for Services to support direct access from outside a cluster.

NodeLocal DNSCache

This add-on functions as a DaemonSet to run the DNS cache proxy on each cluster node to improve cluster DNS performance.

Container Storage Add-ons

Add-on Name

Description

CCE Container Storage (Everest)

This add-on is a cloud native container storage system, which enables clusters of Kubernetes v1.15.6 or later to use cloud storage through the Container Storage Interface (CSI).

Add-on Lifecycle

An add-on lifecycle involves all the statuses of the add-on from installation to uninstallation.

Table 1 Add-on statuses

Status

Attribute

Description

Running

Stable state

The add-on is running properly, all add-on instances are deployed properly, and the add-on can be used properly.

Partially ready

Stable state

The add-on is running properly, but some add-on instances are not properly deployed. In this state, the add-on functions may be unavailable.

Unavailable

Stable state

The add-on malfunctions, and all add-on instances are not properly deployed.

Installing

Intermediate state

The add-on is being deployed.

If all instances cannot be scheduled due to incorrect add-on configuration or insufficient resources, the system sets the add-on status to Unavailable 10 minutes later.

Installation failed

Stable state

Install add-on failed. Uninstall it and try again.

Upgrading

Intermediate state

The add-on is being upgraded.

Upgrade failed

Stable state

Upgrade add-on failed. Upgrade it again, or uninstall it and try again.

Rolling back

Intermediate state

The add-on is rolling back.

Rollback failed

Stable state

The add-on rollback failed. Retry the rollback, or uninstall it and try again.

Deleting

Intermediate state

The add-on is being deleted.

If this state stays for a long time, an exception occurred.

Deletion failed

Stable state

Delete add-on failed. Try again.

Unknown

Stable state

No add-on chart found.

Note

When an add-on is in an intermediate state such as Installing or Deleting, you are not allowed to edit or uninstall the add-on.

If the add-on status is unknown and the returned status.Reason is "don't install the addon in this cluster", the secret associated with the Helm release of the add-on in the cluster is typically deleted by mistake. In this case, uninstall the add-on and reinstall it with the same configurations.