Kubera: Fast check-in

Onboarding onto Kubera platform with demo project

The recent Kubera v1.12.0 release emphasizes improvements in multiple user flows including CSI-based cStor storage engines and workload centric backups (Full release notes here). Additionally, MayaData team has been working on new onboarding features and improved user experience. Our main design goals is to help users to start experimenting with Kubera faster. UX improvements will be gradually rolled out with the upcoming release, but one of the exciting onboarding feature made it to the v1.12 release - onboarding using demo clusters. Demo project gives users ability to test Kubera fully before they prepare their own clusters to add to the Kubera Dashboard. 

How to get started with Kubera using the demo project

Let’s see how you can complete your onboarding and test Kubera features using the demo cluster.

In this case, you don’t need to worry about getting your Kubernetes cluster up for now. All you need to do is login to the Kubera. 

1. Visit https://mayadata.io/. Click Sign Up Free button on the upper right corner to sign up for a new account.
   
   
2. Sign up using GitHub authentication or your work email address. Note that the 2min video on this screen is also very informative to understand high-level Kubera features.
   
   
   
3. Once you verify your email, you will get to the Welcome screen. Name your project and click on Continue.
   
   
4. On the next screen, where you originally had to connect your cluster to complete your onboarding, now you will see the new Start Demo Project button. If you have your cluster ready, you can always choose your Kubernetes cluster provider type, cluster name and connect your cluster. Otherwise, click on Start Demo Project to skip adding clusters now and get started quickly.
   
   
5. Once you click on Start Demo Project a demo environment will be created and connected to your profile.
   
   
6. That's all. You are on-boarded. Now you can play with all Kubera features while you prepare your cluster to be added to your profile.
   

Most popular workloads on Kubera

Once you get familiar with Kubera, add your cluster to Kubera and follow one of our step-by-step stateful workload deployment guides listed below to get your applications up and running. 

• Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes 
• Deploying ElasticSearch / EFK on Kubernetes
• Deploying Magento on Kubernetes
• Deploying Cassandra on Kubernetes

Relevant Topics

• Cloud native data plane on Kubernetes
• Kubera: MayaData's unique cloud native approach to back-ups

Resources/Blogs:

• Announcing Kubera
• Sign up for Kubera 
• MayaData Resources
• Kubera HelpCenter