There are two types of Addons, Core Addons maintained and officially supported by the MicroK8s team at Canonical, and Community Addons.
See also: How to manage Addons, Setting up your own repository
Addons in the Core Repository
| name | description | version | compatibility |
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| cert-manager | Certificate management for Kubernetes clusters |  |
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| community | Enables the community addons repository |  |
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| dns | Deploys CoreDNS. It is recommended that this addon is always enabled. |  |
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| dashboard | The standard Kubernetes Dashboard. | |
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| gpu | Enable support for GPU accelerated workloads using the NVIDIA runtime. | |
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| ha-cluster | Allows for high availability on clusters with at least three nodes. |  |
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| helm | Installs the Helm 3 package manager for Kubernetes |  |
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| helm3 | Transition addon introducing the Helm 3 package manager |  |
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| hostpath-storage | Create a default storage class which allocates storage from a host directory. Note!: The add-on uses simple filesystem storage local to the node where it was added. Not suitable for a production environment or clusters | |
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| host-access | Provides a fixed IP for access to the host’s services. | |
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| ingress | A simple ingress controller for external access. | |
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| kube-ovn | The feature rich Kube-OVN network fabric. | |
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| mayastor | Multi-node zero-ops storage option powered by Mayastor | |
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| minio | Cloud-agnostic S3-compatible object storage. |  |
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| metallb | Deploys the MetalLB Loadbalancer. Note that currently this does not work on macOS, due to network filtering. |  |
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| metrics-server | Adds the Kubernetes Metrics Server for API access to service metrics. | |
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| prometheus | Deploys the Prometheus Operator. |  |
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| rbac | Enable Role Based Access Control for authorisation. Note that this is incompatible with some other add-ons. | |
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| rook-ceph | Rook turns distributed storage systems into self-managing, self-scaling, self-healing storage services. |  |
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| registry | Deploy a private image registry and expose it on localhost:32000. | |
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| storage | DEPRECATED - Replaced by the hostpath-storage addon. | |
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Addons in the Community Repository
This collection of third party and community maintained addons can be enabled with:
microk8s enable community
Here is what is currently included:
| name | description | version | compatibility |
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| ambassador | Ambassador is an API and Ingress controller |  |
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| amd | AMD GPU operator used to run GPU-accelerated workloads |  |
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| argocd | Deploys Argo CD, the declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. | |
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| cilium | Deploys Cilium to support Kubernetes network policies using eBPF. | |
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| cloudnative-pg | Adds cloud native Postgres support for faster and more reliable PG |  |
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| easyhaproxy | Adds EasyHAProxy for automatic ingress. |  |
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| falco | Cloud native security alerts | |
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| fluentd | Deploy the Elasticsearch-Fluentd-Kibana logging and monitoring solution. |  |
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| gopaddle-lite | Simple “no-code” platform for Kubernetes developers. | |
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| inaccel | Simplify FPGA management and application lifecycle with InAccel. | |
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| istio | Adds the core Istio services (not available on arm64 arch). | |
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| jaeger | Deploy the Jaeger Operator in the “simplest” configuration. | |
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| kata | Adds Kata containers support - A secure container runtime with lightweight virtual machines. |  |
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| keda | Deploys KEDA - Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling operator. |  |
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| knative | Adds the Knative middleware to your cluster | |
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| kubearmor | Provides policy-based security for workloads. See KubeArmor website . | |
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| kwasm | Add WebAssembly support to your Kubernetes nodes | |
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| linkerd | Deploys the linkerd service mesh | |
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| microcks | Open source Kubernetes native tool for API Mocking and Testing. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Sandbox project. | |
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| multus | Add multus for multiple network capability. | |
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| nfs | Adds NFS-based storage. | |
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| ngrok | Unified ingress/gateway | |
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| ondat | A Kubernetes-native persistent storage platform. | |
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| openebs | Add OpenEBS storage capability. |  |
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| openfaas | OpenFaaS, the popular serverless framework. | |
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| osm-edge | Open Service Mesh Edge (OSM-Edge) fork from Open Service Mesh is a lightweight, extensible, Cloud Native service mesh built for Edge computing. | |
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| parking | Parking for static sites | |
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| portainer | Container management dashboard (see portainer.io). | |
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| shifu | Kubernetes native IoT development framework | |
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| sosivio | Predictive troubleshooting for Kubernetes | |
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| traefik | Adds the Traefik Kubernetes Ingress controller. | |
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| trivy | Open source security scanner for Kubernetes | |
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