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What is CMA?

Cluster Management Application (here and after is referred as CMA) is mainly designed to create, deploy and manage SimpliKube clusters.

SimpliKube cluster deployment use case

The following diagram explains in high-level the basic tasks flow that you perform to install and deploy a SimpliKube cluster:

CMA tasks

As you can see from the diagram, by using CMA you can install and deploy SimpliKube on a bare metal server or in AWS or Alliyun cloud.

CMA features

In addition to cluster deployment use cases, CMA provides a number of features described in this section.

Nodes management

  • Access an inventory with a list of available nodes
  • View data of the nodes in the inventory
  • Manually add nodes to the inventory by discovering them with the predefined IP address and IPMI credentials
  • Delete nodes from the inventory
  • View node details in the Hardware info section

Cluster management

  • Configure and create cluster structures
  • Configure nodes and add them to a cluster structure
  • Provision cluster with a specific configuration
  • Edit any cluster configuration including any node configuration
  • Re-provision a cluster when any configuration changes are made
  • Delete nodes from the cluster
  • Delete a cluster structure.

SimpliKube releases management

  • Download new release version or use an old one
  • Edit or delete release
  • View the release status and details.