Kinetica Installation with Kubernetes

Kinetica installation and configuration instructions for Kubernetes using Helm Charts and the Kinetica Operator for Kubernetes.

Note

Kinetica can be installed manually on pre-provisioned instances in AWS, Azure, or GCP. For offerings provisioned within cloud environments directly, see Cloud-Ready.


System Requirements

Kinetica supports Kubernetes versions 1.25 and higher.

Kinetica is supported on the following Kubernetes environments:

  • Vanilla Kubernetes
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
  • Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
  • kind
  • K3s

Limitations

The following Kinetica features are not currently supported in Kinetica on Kubernetes:

  • External authentication and authorization (including LDAP, Active Directory, Kerberos and OAuth/OIDC)
  • Kinetica high availability and replication across Kinetica clusters

Kinetica on Kubernetes does support resilience within a cluster through Kubernetes' facilities for automated restarts of pods and nodes.

Kubernetes Installation

Kinetica can be installed to Kubernetes clusters using Helm Charts and the Kinetica Operator for Kubernetes.

For more information and installation instructions, see: https://kineticadb.github.io/charts/latest/.