Adding Kyma Modules

1. Go to your SAP BTP subaccount.

2. In the Kyma Environment section, select the console URL link.

   

   Alternatively, you can access the dashboard by providing the kubeconfig file. This method takes more time but allows you to customize storage and privacy settings according to your preferences.

   1. Go to your SAP BTP subaccount.

   2. Download the kubeconfig file from the Kyma Environment section.

3. Go to https://dashboard.kyma.cloud.sap/clusters.

4. Select Connect Cluster.

5. Drop the kubeconfig file into the editor.

6. Select Next step and edit the dashboard's configuration if needed.

7. When you reach the final step, select Connect Cluster.

Kyma runtime, like Kubernetes, uses namespaces to isolate groups of resources within a cluster. For example, when you enable Kyma runtime, the modules' resources are deployed in the kyma-system namespace, Istio resources in the istio-system namespace, and the kube-system namespace contains various system-level resources and components required for the proper functioning of the Kubernetes cluster. Display the already created resources:

1. Go to Namespaces and select the kyma-system namespace.

   

   This page shows you the status of the objects that are deployed in the kyma-system namespace. It directly provides an overview of the overall healthiness of your objects as well as resource consumption (CPU, Memory, Network). Kyma dashbaord contains an overview page for each of your namespaces.

2. In the Workloads section, you can see different objects grouped by categories. You can choose the respective category to see the available object of a certain kind. To view all the Pods that are created in the kyma-systemnamespace, select Pods.

   

3. Use the toggle to select All Namespaces instead of the specific namespace.

   

   Now, you can see all the Pods that are created in all namespaces of your Kyma runtime instance.

1. From the Cluster Details page, go to Namespaces.

2. Select Create.

3. Provide the name of your namespace and select Create.

4. Go to Worloads → Pods and select Create.

5. Paste the following configuration into the editor:

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   apiVersion: v1
       kind: Pod
       metadata:
       name: my-pod
       spec:
           containers:
           - name: my-container
               image: nginx:1.21.3

6. Select Create.

   Note

   Feel free to play around and create different kinds of resources in your newly created namespace. All objects in your Kyma runtime instance can be configured using the respective manifest in the YAML format.

   Some objects also have a graphical editor, which allows you to create and edit objects without having to write the YAML manifest by hand.

   If you are unsure about how to create different objects, don't worry! We'll cover these topics in the next lessons.

7. To delete the namespace, select Delete from its overview page.