Introducing MicroCloud Cluster Manager

Your single entry point to all your MicroClouds

Today, we’re excited to introduce the beta release of MicroCloud Cluster Manager, a new way to discover, organize, and operate your MicroCloud environments from a single, unified interface.

MicroCloud is an open source cloud platform that makes it simple to create lightweight, resilient clusters anywhere. As teams scale from one cluster to many, visibility and coordination quickly become essential. Cluster Manager is built to solve exactly that.

One dashboard. Every MicroCloud.

MicroCloud Cluster Manager serves as the central entry point for all your MicroClouds.
Whether you’re managing your data center, a few edge clusters, or dozens across environments, Cluster Manager gives you:

• Unified visibility across all enrolled MicroCloud clusters
• Streamlined access to key cluster details and metrics
• A foundation for operational oversight, ready to grow with your needs

With just a few clicks, you can enroll your first cluster and immediately begin exploring its health, resources, and configuration.

Why Cluster Manager?

As MicroCloud deployments grow, teams often face common challenges:

• Where is each cluster running?
• How do I get a quick overview of cluster health?
• How do I streamline access as more environments come online?

Cluster Manager tackles these problems by giving you a single, consistent point of control, no matter how many clusters you operate or where they are deployed.

Built to extend: monitoring, alerting, and more

Cluster Manager is designed as a flexible platform. Out of the box, it makes cluster discovery and access effortless, but it also lays the groundwork for the more advanced operational tooling teams rely on.

MicroCloud Cluster Manager is designed to be fully extensible with the Canonical observability stack, giving you a complete Grafana dashboard for every cluster out of the box. With no additional setup required. The beta release is currently extensible only with the LXD Grafana dashboard, giving you observability for your virtualization layer. We are working on expanding this to also include MicroCeph and MicroOVN observability. 

Enroll your first cluster

Getting started is simple:

1. Deploy your MicroCloud cluster
2. Connect it to Cluster Manager
3. Explore your unified dashboard

From there, you can continue enrolling additional clusters and begin shaping your own multi-cluster view tailored to your infrastructure.

Built on Open Source: Juju, Postgres, and Traefik

MicroCloud Cluster Manager is built entirely on open source technology, just like MicroCloud itself. It’s orchestrated with Juju, using the PostgreSQL and the Traefik Ingress Operator charms to provide a solid, production-ready foundation. This stack ensures that day-two operations are solved out of the box, from automated updates to scaling and resilience.

With a fully open source architecture, every part of the platform, storage, ingress, orchestration, and the Cluster Manager application, is transparent, reliable, and built to grow with your infrastructure.

The beginning of a bigger ecosystem

MicroCloud Cluster Manager is our first step toward a richer, more powerful management experience for MicroCloud users. Over time, it will become a full operational console for cluster insights, automation, and lifecycle management.

We’re excited to share this preview and look forward to your feedback as we continue to expand its capabilities.

Follow the how-to outlined in our documentation to try it.

Have a MicroCloud use case you’d like to discuss? Contact us to get started.