Kubernetes is a production-grade, open-source container orchestration platform. It helps you automate, deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications.
Pigsty has native support for ETCD clusters, which can be used as external etcd for Kubernetes.
The current open-source tree has no kube.yml playbook, Kubernetes role, or kube_* parameters. Pigsty provides software repositories and base-node provisioning here; cluster initialization, networking, control-plane management, and upgrades must still be handled by kubeadm, SealOS, or another Kubernetes tool.
SealOS
SealOS is a lightweight, high-performance, and easy-to-use Kubernetes distribution. It is designed to simplify the deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters.
The current Pigsty node platform mapping includes the sealos package. Install it from the Infra repository, then use SealOS to manage the cluster.
./node.yml -t node_install -e '{"node_repo_modules":"infra","node_packages":["sealos"]}'
Kubernetes
If you use classic kubeadm to deploy Kubernetes, install these packages first:
./node.yml -t node_install -e '{"node_repo_modules":"kube","node_packages":["kubeadm","kubelet","kubectl"]}'
Kubernetes supports multiple container runtimes. If you want to use Containerd as the container runtime, please make sure Containerd is installed on the node.
./node.yml -t node_install -e '{"node_repo_modules":"node,infra","node_packages":["containerd.io"]}'
To use Docker as the container runtime, install Docker and provide the cri-dockerd bridge component yourself. The default package mapping currently only includes the containerd.io runtime:
./node.yml -t node_install -e '{"node_repo_modules":"node,infra","node_packages":["docker-ce","docker-compose-plugin"]}'
Monitoring
Kubernetes cluster observability is typically handled by in-cluster stacks (such as kube-prometheus-stack).
On the Pigsty side, you can monitor the foundational dependencies Kubernetes relies on:
- ETCD Monitoring & Alerting: Control-plane metadata consistency and availability
- NODE Monitoring & Alerting: Host-level CPU, memory, kernel, and network health
- INFRA Monitoring & Alerting: Monitoring backend, alert pipeline, and observability platform health