Internal services for the operation of your cluster

The services described here may not be modified! You can view them to get a better understanding of the internal operation of your Kubernetes setup with us. However, changes may cause your cluster to become inoperable.

Canal

Canal can be thought of as a virtual switch that handles communication between pods, services and other components of the Kubernetes cluster. You don't normally interact with it directly. Canal lives in the kube-system namespace.

Metrics server

The metrics server collects statistics about internal Kubernetes services and makes them available to VictoriaMetrics.

Trident

NetApp Trident pods and drivers are in place to provide the link between Persistent Volume Claims (PVC) and our Premium NetApp storage.

Kube-system namespace

Everything in the kube-system namespace (nodelocaldns, coredns, kube-proxy, ...) is the beating heart of your Kubernetes cluster. Without these, the Kubernetes cluster would not exist! We therefore ask that you never install additional things in this namespace or manipulate it without our cooperation.