📋 Configure Cluster

Give your cluster a unique identifier. This name will be used across the CloudNexus platform.

✏️ Cluster Identity
Choose a name and select the Kubernetes version for your cluster.

🌍 Select Region

Choose the deployment region closest to your users. All regions have full feature parity.

🌐 Deployment Region
Picking the right region minimizes latency and can reduce costs.
📊 Availability
How should the cluster distribute nodes across availability zones?

⚙️ Node Configuration

Define your node pools, compute resources, and storage for the cluster.

🔢 Node Count
Number of worker nodes in your cluster. Min: 1, Max: 100.
3
worker nodes
💻 Node Type
Select the instance type for your worker nodes.
💾 Storage
Configure storage for persistent volumes and snapshots.

🔗 Networking

Configure your cluster's network topology, load balancers, and DNS.

🌐 VPC Configuration
Networking setup for your cluster nodes.
🔄 Load Balancer
Add a load balancer to distribute traffic to your services.

🧩 Add-ons & Extras

Enable additional services and features for your cluster.

📦 Enabled Add-ons
Toggle on any additional services your cluster needs.

🔒 RBAC & Network Policies

Enforce role-based access control and pod network isolation

📊 Monitoring Stack

Prometheus + Grafana dashboards pre-configured

📝 Log Aggregation

FluentBit log collection with centralised storage

🌍 Global CDN Integration

Automatically connect cluster to CloudNexus CDN

🔐 Auto TLS / Cert-Manager

Automatic SSL certificate provisioning and renewal

🔄 Auto-Scaling

HPA & VPA with intelligent CPU/memory scaling policies

🛡️ DDoS Protection

Enterprise-grade DDoS mitigation at the node level

🚀 Review & Deploy

Review your cluster configuration before provisioning.

📋 Configuration Summary
Everything is set up and ready to deploy.
Cluster Name
prod-cluster
Kubernetes Version
v1.29.2
Region
US-East-1 (us-east-1)
Availability
Multi-AZ (3 zones)
Worker Nodes
3 × cx-standard-4
Node Resources
4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM each
Storage
NVMe SSD (3,500 IOPS)
Networking
VPC 10.0.0.0/16
Load Balancer
CloudNexus LB (Layer 7)
Add-ons
6 enabled
💰 Cost Estimate
Monthly recurring cost estimate (USD). Actual cost may vary slightly.
Node Cost (3 × cx-standard-4) $177.00
Cluster Management $15.00
Load Balancer $18.00
Monitoring Stack $25.00
Network / Egress $12.00
Total / month $247.00
💻 Deployment Command
Once deployed, run this command to connect your local kubectl.
# Download the cluster config curl https://api.cloudnexus.io/v1/cluster/prod-cluster/config \ -o ~/.kube/config \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CN_API_KEY" # Verify connectivity kubectl get nodes \ --context cloudnexus-prod-cluster # Check cluster health kubectl get cs # componentstatus NAME STATUS MESSAGE ERROR controller-manager Healthy ok scheduler Healthy ok etcdbs Healthy ok

⏳ Deploying Your Cluster

This usually takes 3-5 minutes. Please don't close this page.

Provisioning your cluster...

Initializing infrastructure

⏳ Validating cluster configuration
○ Provisioning VPC & networking
○ Allocating compute resources
○ Installing Kubernetes components
○ Configuring add-ons
○ Finalizing & connecting
🎉

Cluster Deployed Successfully!

Your cluster prod-cluster is running and ready to use.

Status
● Online
Kubeconfig
Auto-downloaded ✓
API Endpoint
443
Dashboard
Open →
# Test it! kubectl get nodes NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION cn-wkr-abc123 Ready worker 2m v1.29.2 cn-wkr-def456 Ready worker 2m v1.29.2 cn-wkr-ghi789 Ready worker 2m v1.29.2
Open Dashboard → Start Another Cluster