-managed_namespace_help_text=s_('ClusterIntegration|Set a prefix for your namespaces. If not set, defaults to your project path. If modified, existing environments will use their current namespaces until the cluster cache is cleared.')
-non_managed_namespace_help_text=s_('ClusterIntegration|The namespace associated with your project. This will be used for deploy boards, logs, and Web terminals.')
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# Kubernetes clusters **(FREE)**
> - Project-level clusters [introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/35954) in GitLab 10.1.
> - Group-level clusters [introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/34758) in GitLab 11.6.
> - Instance-level clusters [introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/39840) in GitLab 11.11.
Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform to deploy applications
in a cluster without downtime and that scales as you need.
With the GitLab integration with Kubernetes, you can:
1.[Connect your cluster](#connect-your-cluster-to-gitlab).
1.[Manage your cluster](#manage-your-cluster).
1.[Deploy your cluster](#deploy-to-your-cluster).
See the [Kubernetes clusters versions supported by GitLab](connect/index.md#supported-cluster-versions).
## Connect your cluster to GitLab
Learn how to [create new and connect existing clusters to GitLab](connect/index.md).
create a project to manage your cluster's shared resources requiring
`cluster-admin` privileges such as an Ingress controller.
-[Cluster Management Project Template](../../clusters/management_project_template.md): start a cluster management project directly from a template.
-[Migrate to Cluster Management Project](../../clusters/migrating_from_gma_to_project_template.md): migrate from the deprecated GitLab Managed Apps to Cluster Management Projects.
-[GitLab Managed Apps](../../clusters/applications.md)(deprecated in favor of Cluster Management Projects): configure applications in your cluster directly from GitLab.
-[Clusters health](manage/clusters_health.md): monitor your cluster's health, such as CPU and memory usage.
### Secure your cluster
-[Container Host Security](../../project/clusters/protect/container_host_security/index.md): monitor and block activity inside a container and enforce security policies across the cluster.
-[Container Network security](../../project/clusters/protect/container_network_security/index.md): filter traffic going in and out of the cluster and traffic between pods through a firewall with Cilium NetworkPolicies.
## Deploy to your cluster
-[CI/CD Tunnel](../../clusters/agent/ci_cd_tunnel.md): use the CI/CD Tunnel to run Kubernetes commands from different projects.
-[Inventory object](deploy/inventory_object.md): track objects applied to a cluster configured with the Kubernetes Agent.
-[Auto DevOps](../../../topics/autodevops/index.md): enable Auto DevOps
to allow GitLab automatically detect, build, test, and deploy applications.
-[Cluster environments](../../clusters/environments.md): view CI/CD environments deployed to Kubernetes clusters.
-[Canary Deployments](../../project/canary_deployments.md): deploy app updates to a small portion of the fleet with this Continuous Delivery strategy.
-[Deploy to your cluster](../../project/clusters/deploy_to_cluster.md):
deploy applications into your cluster using cluster certificates.
-[Deploy Boards](../../project/deploy_boards.md): view the current health and status of each CI/CD environment running on your cluster, and the status of deployment pods.
-[Pod logs](../../project/clusters/kubernetes_pod_logs.md): view the logs of your cluster's running pods.
-[Serverless](../../project/clusters/serverless/index.md)(deprecated): deploy Serverless applications in Kubernetes environments and cloud Function as a Service (FaaS) environments.
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# Clusters health **(FREE)**
> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/4701) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 10.6.
> - [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/208224) to GitLab Free in 13.2.
When [the Prometheus cluster integration is enabled](../../../clusters/integrations.md#prometheus-cluster-integration), GitLab monitors the cluster's health. At the top of the cluster settings page, CPU and Memory utilization is displayed, along with the total amount available. Keeping an eye on cluster resources can be important, if the cluster runs out of memory pods may be shutdown or fail to start.
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# Kubernetes clusters **(FREE)**
# Project-level Kubernetes clusters **(FREE)**
> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/35954) in GitLab 10.1 for projects.
> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/34758) in
> GitLab 11.6 for [groups](../../group/clusters/index.md).
> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/39840) in
> GitLab 11.11 for [instances](../../instance/clusters/index.md).
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/35954) in GitLab 10.1.
We offer extensive integrations to help you connect and manage your Kubernetes clusters from GitLab.
allow you to connect a Kubernetes cluster to a project in GitLab.
Read through this document to get started.
You can also [connect multiple clusters](multiple_kubernetes_clusters.md)
to a single project.
## Benefit from the GitLab-Kubernetes integration
After connecting a cluster to GitLab, you can benefit from the large number of
[GitLab features available for Kubernetes clusters](../../infrastructure/clusters/index.md) to manage and deploy to your cluster.
Using the GitLab-Kubernetes integration, you can benefit of GitLab
features such as:
## View your project-level clusters
- Create [CI/CD Pipelines](../../../ci/pipelines/index.md) to build, test, and deploy to your cluster.
- Use [Auto DevOps](#auto-devops) to automate the CI/CD process.
- Use [role-based or attribute-based access controls](cluster_access.md).
- Run serverless workloads on [Kubernetes with Knative](serverless/index.md).
- Connect GitLab to in-cluster applications using [cluster integrations](../../clusters/integrations.md).
- Use [deploy boards](../deploy_boards.md) to see the health and status of each CI [environment](../../../ci/environments/index.md) running on your Kubernetes cluster.
- Use [Canary deployments](../canary_deployments.md) to update only a portion of your fleet with the latest version of your application.
- View your [Kubernetes podlogs](kubernetes_pod_logs.md) directly in GitLab.
- Connect to your cluster through GitLab [web terminals](deploy_to_cluster.md#web-terminals-for-kubernetes-clusters).
To view project-level Kubernetes clusters:
## Supported cluster versions
See the [Kubernetes clusters versions supported by GitLab](../../infrastructure/clusters/connect/index.md#supported-cluster-versions).
## Connect your cluster to GitLab
Learn how to [create new and connect existing clusters to GitLab](../../infrastructure/clusters/connect/index.md).
## Cluster integrations
See the available [cluster integrations](../../clusters/integrations.md)
to integrate third-party applications with your clusters through GitLab.
## Cluster management project
Attach a [Cluster management project](../../clusters/management_project.md)
to your cluster to manage shared resources requiring `cluster-admin` privileges for
installation, such as an Ingress controller.
## GitLab-managed clusters
See how to allow [GitLab to manage your cluster for you](gitlab_managed_clusters.md).
## Auto DevOps
You can use [Auto DevOps](../../../topics/autodevops/index.md) to automatically
detect, build, test, deploy, and monitor your applications.
## Deploying to a Kubernetes cluster
See how to [deploy to your Kubernetes cluster](deploy_to_cluster.md) from GitLab.
## Monitoring your Kubernetes cluster
Automatically detect and monitor Kubernetes metrics. Automatic monitoring of
[NGINX Ingress](../integrations/prometheus_library/nginx.md) is also supported.
[Read more about Kubernetes monitoring](../integrations/prometheus_library/kubernetes.md)
### Visualizing cluster health
> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/4701) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 10.6.
> - [Moved](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/208224) to GitLab Free in 13.2.
When [the Prometheus cluster integration is enabled](../../clusters/integrations.md#prometheus-cluster-integration), GitLab monitors the cluster's health. At the top of the cluster settings page, CPU and Memory utilization is displayed, along with the total amount available. Keeping an eye on cluster resources can be important, if the cluster runs out of memory pods may be shutdown or fail to start.