KRaft

Navigate to the cluster creation page. There, create a cluster with a name and TLS-SAN. The cluster name is, unsurprisingly, required. For those not too knowledgeable about Kubernetes, the TLS-SAN field is if you want to add a custom URL to access your cluster. A default URL will be generated as random-word.kraft.alexbissessur.dev with all the DNS entries needed for you to access your newly made cluster.

This segment is only relevant if you populated the TLS-SAN field with a custom URL. In order to finish configuring your custom entrypoint, you need to go to the cluster details page, and grab the randomly generated URL. Then create a CNAME record for your domain, pointing to mine.

It will take a few minutes for the cluster to be created, initialise, and be ready for use. Tragically I do not have a status field to tell you about what stage the cluster is in. However, after waiting maybe 2 minutes, you can try downloading your kubeconfig file from the cluster management page. This kubeconfig file gives you the credentials and configuration needed to interact with your cluster. If the server field is set to the internal IP address, change it to your domain or to example-endpoint.kraftcloud.dev .

Everything you do on your cluster will involve kubectl, a command line tool which communicates with the kubernetes API server. Kubectl is the only item you need to install locally, and you can refer to the guide here.