Managed Kubernetes Applications

Last update: October 05 2026Open in Markdown

In a Managed Kubernetes cluster, you can use applications that extend Kubernetes functionality — for example, applications that help manage traffic or collect and process logs.

You can install and delete applications using Helm and the Control panel. Currently, through the Control panel, you can:

• install and delete the Envoy Gateway application;
• delete the NGINX Ingress Controller application.

Envoy Gateway application

Envoy Gateway is a solution for managing inbound and outbound traffic in Kubernetes, built on Gateway API resources and the Envoy proxy server.

Envoy Gateway tasks:

• HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP traffic routing;
• load balancing;
• SSL and TLS connection termination;
• advanced traffic management — for example, support for canary and blue-green deployments.

Learn more in the Traffic load balancing with Gateway API section.

Install Envoy Gateway

Control panel

For the application to work, a load balancer of the type Basic with redundancy and a public floating IP address will be created. You cannot change the type of the created load balancer. If you want to change the load balancer type or its settings, install the application using a Helm chart.

1. Make sure that a quota for at least one public floating IP address is allocated in the pool.
2. In the control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Managed Kubernetes.
3. In the Clusters section, open the cluster page → tab Applications.
4. In the Available for installation section, click Envoy Gateway.
5. Check the price of the load balancer and the public floating IP address.
6. Click Install. A new Basic with redundancy load balancer with a public floating IP address will be created. The load balancer will appear in the control panel: in the top menu, click Products and select Cloud Servers → section Load Balancers → tab Load Balancers.

Helm

You can install Envoy Gateway:

• without configuring parameters — default parameter values specified in the Helm chart are used. You can view default values using the command helm inspect values oci://docker.io/envoyproxy/gateway-helm;
• or with parameter configuration — you configure parameters in a file and use it for installation.

Without parameter configuration

1. Connect to the cluster.

2. Install the Helm package manager.

3. Install Envoy Gateway:

   helm upgrade --install eg --create-namespace oci://docker.io/envoyproxy/gateway-helm --version v1.6.3 -n envoy-gateway-system

4. Ensure that Envoy Gateway is installed:

   kubectl get pods -n envoy-gateway-system

   Information about Envoy Gateway will appear in the response:

   NAME                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   envoy-gateway-8545855df8-vjqtf    1/1     Running   0          35s

With parameter configuration

1. Connect to the cluster.

2. Install the Helm package manager.

3. Get the default values for the Helm chart envoyproxy/gateway-helm and save them to the envoy-gateway-values.yaml file:

   helm inspect values oci://docker.io/envoyproxy/gateway-helm --version v1.6.3 > envoy-gateway-values.yaml

4. In the envoy-gateway-values.yaml file, configure the required parameters and save the changes.

5. Install Envoy Gateway:

   helm upgrade --install eg --create-namespace oci://docker.io/envoyproxy/gateway-helm --version v1.6.3 -n envoy-gateway-system --values envoy-gateway-values.yaml

6. Ensure that Envoy Gateway is installed:

   kubectl get pods

   Information about Envoy Gateway will appear in the response. For example:

   NAME                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   envoy-gateway-8545855df8-vjqtf    1/1     Running   0          35s

Delete Envoy Gateway

Control panel

1. In the control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Managed Kubernetes.
2. In the Clusters section, open the cluster page → Applications tab.
3. In the Installed applications block, in the application row, click .
4. Enter the cluster name to confirm deletion.
5. Click Delete.

Helm

1. Connect to the cluster.

2. Delete the application:

   helm uninstall eg

NGINX Ingress Controller application

NGINX Ingress Controller is an Ingress controller for NGINX that routes incoming traffic at the application layer (L7). To route traffic, Ingress Controller uses rules from Ingress. Learn more about NGINX Ingress Controller in the About article in the NGINX Ingress Controller documentation.

Support for NGINX Ingress Controller has been discontinued, but it continues to work. To reduce vulnerability risks, we recommend switching to Gateway API. For example, to Envoy Gateway. Learn more in the example of migration from Ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway.

After migration, you can delete NGINX Ingress Controller.

Delete NGINX Ingress Controller

Control panel

1. In the control panel, in the top menu, click Products and select Managed Kubernetes.
2. In the Clusters section, open the cluster page → Applications tab.
3. In the Installed applications block, in the application row, click .
4. Enter the cluster name to confirm deletion.
5. Click Delete. The public IP address and the load balancer will be deleted along with the application.

Helm

1. Connect to the cluster.

2. Delete the application:

   helm uninstall nginx

   The public IP address and load balancer will be deleted along with the application.