Clusters
Devtron allows you to manage your Kubernetes cluster by:
- Browsing information of cluster and its resources.
- Managing the added resources to meet the requirements for high speed and storage capacity.
- Managing Cluster resources with Kubernetes requests and limits and also individual containers.
- Debugging a pod or node by connecting to a terminal.
On the left navigation of Devtron, select
Clusters
. You will find the list of clusters in this section which you have added under Global Configurations > Clusters & Environments.You can also search the cluster in the
Search Clusters
bar.
Fields | Description |
---|---|
Cluster | User-defined name for the cluster in Devtron. E.g. default-cluster |
Connection Status | Status of the cluster. The status can be either Successful or Failed . |
Nodes | Shows the number of nodes in a cluster. |
Node Errors | Shows the error in nodes. |
K8s Version | Shows the version of Kubernetes cluster. |
CPU Capacity | Shows the CPU capacity in your cluster in milicore. E.g., 8000m where 1000 milicore equals to 1 core. |
Memory Capacity | Shows the memory capacity in your cluster in mebibytes. |
To see the details of resource allocation and usage of the cluster, click the particular cluster.
On the
Resource allocation and usage
, you can see the details of compute resources or resources.- CPU resources
- Memory resources
If you specify a
request
and limits
in the container resource manifest file, then the respective values will appear on the Resource allocation and usage
section.
You can see the list of nodes available in your cluster. Typically you have several nodes in a cluster; in a learning or resource-limited environment, you might have only one node.
The components on a typical node include the
kubelet
, a container runtime
, and the kube-proxy
.
If you have multiple nodes, you can search a node by name or label in the search bar.
Fields | Description |
---|---|
Node | User-defined name for the node in Devtron. E.g. demo-new .
Note: Two nodes cannot have the same name at the same time.
|
Status | Status of a node. It can be either Ready or Not Ready . |
Roles | Shows the roles of a node. |
Errors | Shows the error in nodes. |
K8s Version | Shows the version of Kubernetes cluster. |
No. of Pods | Shows the number of namespaces or pods in a node. |
CPU Usage | Shows the CPU consumption in a node. |
Mem Usage | Shows the memory consumption in a node |
Age | Shows the time that the pod has been running since the last restart. |
To display a parameter of a node, use the
Columns
on the right side, select the parameter you want to display from the drop-down list and click Apply
.Your applications run on pods, and pods run on Nodes. But sometimes, Kubernetes scheduler cannot deploy a pod on a Node for several reasons. As an example, node is not ready, node is not reachable, network is unavailable etc.
Using the Devtron UI, you will be able to:
To see the summary of a node, click the specific node.

You can debug a node via Terminal by selecting your namespace and image from the list that has all CLI utilities like kubectl, helm, netshoot etc. or can use a custom image, which is publicly available.

- Go to the
Clusters
section from the left navigation pane. - Select your cluster.
- Search a node by name or label in the search bar.
- On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click
Terminal
. - Debug a node by selecting the terminal shell
bash
orsh
.
Cordoning a node means making the node unschedulable. After cordoning a node, new Pods cannot be scheduled on this node.

- On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click
Cordon
. - A dialog box with message
Cordoning this node will mark this node as unschedulable. By cordoning a node, you can be sure that no new pods will be scheduled on this node
is displayed. - The status of the node shows
SchedulingDisabled
withUnschedulable
parameter set astrue
.
Similarly, you can uncordon a node by clicking
Uncordon
. After a node is uncordoned, new Pods can be scheduled on the node.Before performing maintenance on a node, draining a node evicts all of your pods safely from a node. Safe evictions allow the pod’s containers to gracefully terminate and honour the
PodDisruptionBudgets
you have specified (if relevant).After the node is drained, all Pods (including those managed by DaemonSets) in the node will be automatically drained to other nodes in the cluster, and the drained node will be set to cordoned status.

- On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click
Drain
. - A dialog box with message
Drain will cordon off the node and evict all pods of the node
is displayed. - Click
Drain Node
.
You can also select from the following conditions before draining a node:
Name | Usage |
---|---|
Grace Period | Period of time in seconds given to each pod to terminate gracefully. If negative, the default value specified in the pod will be used. |
Delete empty directory data | Enabling this field will delete the pods using empty directory data when the node is drained. |
Disable eviction (use with caution | Enabling this field will force drain to use delete, even if eviction is supported. This will bypass checking PodDisruptionBudgets .
Note: Make sure to use with caution.
|
Force drain | Enabling this field will force drain a node even if there are pods that do not declare a controller. |
Ignore DaemonSets | Enabling this field will ignore DaemonSet-managed pods. |
Taints are
key:value
pairs associated with effect. After you add taints to nodes, you can set tolerations on a pod to allow the pod to be scheduled to nodes with certain taints. When you taint a node, it will repel all the pods except those that have a toleration for that taint. A node can have one or many taints associated with it.Note: Make sure to check taint validations before you add a taint.

- On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click
Edit taints
. - Click
Add taint
. - On the
Key
andValue
fields, enter thekey:value
pairs and select the taint effect from the drop-down list. - Click
Save
. - You can also delete the added taint by clicking delete button.
A taint can produce three possible effects:
Effect | Description |
---|---|
NoSchedule | The Kubernetes scheduler will only allow scheduling pods that have tolerations for the tainted nodes. |
PreferNoSchedule | The Kubernetes scheduler will try to avoid scheduling pods that do not have tolerations for the tainted nodes. |
NoExecute | Kubernetes will evict the running pods from the nodes if the pods do not have tolerations for the tainted nodes. |
Edit node config
allows you to directly edit any node. It will open the editor which contains all the configuration settings in which the default format is YAML. You can edit multiple objects, although changes are applied one at a time.
- You can edit or modify the parameters or values of a node by clicking
Edit node config
. - Click
Review Changes
to compare the changes in the YAML file. - Click
Update Node
.
- Search a node by name or label in the search bar.
- On the node, click the ellipsis button and then click
Delete
.
The node will be deleted from the cluster.
User with Super admins access can now troubleshoot cluster issues by accessing the cluster terminal from Devtron. You can select an image from the list that has all CLI utilities like kubectl, helm, netshoot etc. or can use a custom image, which is publicly available.
To troubleshoot a cluster or a specific node in a cluster, click the terminal symbol on the right side.

- You will see the user-defined name for the cluster in Devtron. E.g.
default-cluster
. - In the
Nodes
field, select the node from the drop-down list you want to troubleshoot. E.g.demo-new
. - Select the image from the drop-down list which includes all CLI utilities or you can use a custom image, which is publicly available.
- Select the terminal shell from the drop-down list (e.g.
sh
,bash
) to troubleshoot a node.
You can also create pod for debugging which will connect to pod terminal. To find out why the particular pod is not running, you can check
Pod Events
and Pod Manifest
for details.- Check the current state of the Pod and recent events with the following command:
kubectl get pods
- To know more information about each of these pods and to debug a pod depending on the state of the pods, run the following command:
kubectl describe pod <podname>
- If the pod status shows
Pending
, it means that it cannot be scheduled onto a node. Generally this is because there are insufficient resources of one type or another that prevent scheduling. - If the pod is stuck in the
Waiting
state, then it has been scheduled to a worker node, but it cannot run on that machine. One of the most common reason of Waiting pods is a failure to pull the container image. - If the pod status shows
CrashLoopBackOff
, it may because some of the containers inside a pod are not operating on the default access token when trying to interact with API.
Here, you can see configuration information about the container(s) and Pod (labels, resource requirements, etc.), as well as status information about the container(s) and Pod (state, readiness, restart count, events, etc.).
Note: A container can have no or multiple shells running in it. If you are not able to create a successfull connection, try changing the shell, as the container may not have that shell running.
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