Try KCE for free

You can explore KCE for free in a specific trial duration. This topic describes how to try the KCE service for free.

Prerequisites

KCE is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) service built on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources and services of Kingsoft Cloud. Before you try the KCE service, make sure that your account has been granted the permissions to try the services on which KCE depends.

Create a cluster

You need to create host and network resources when you create a cluster. When you create these resources, select the Pay-By-Daily-Config (Trial) billing mode.

• Console operations
  1. Log in to the KCE console.
  2. In the left navigation pane, click Cluster. The cluster management page appears.
  3. Click Create Cluster. The Create Cluster page appears.
  4. In the Cluster Configuration step, if you select Dedicated Cluster for Master Management Mode and select Expose API Server with EIP for Public Access, select Trial as the EIP billing mode.
  5. In the Node Configuration step, select Trial for Billing Mode.
  6. Complete other required settings.

Add a node

• Console operations
  1. Log in to the KCE console.
  2. In the left navigation pane, click Cluster. The cluster management page appears.
  3. Select a cluster and click Create Node. The Create Node page appears. In the Node Configuration step, select Trial for Billing Mode.
  4. Complete other required settings.

Upgrade a trial instance to the formal edition

You cannot centrally upgrade resources to formal editions in the KCE console. Instead, you need to perform related operations in corresponding consoles.

Limits

Some components of KCE, such as Cloud Provider and disk-provisioner, support only API calls. API calls are unavailable for trial services. Therefore, follow the instructions if you need to test the following features.

Container storage

The disk-provisioner component is not supported during trial use. If you need to test container storage, log in to the KFS or EBS console and create an instance with the Pay-By-Daily-Config (Trial) billing mode. Then, you can use volumes or static PVs to test container storage. For more information, see Use EBS volumes and Use KFS volumes.

Network and SLB

Prerequisites: Before you expose container services by using SLB, make sure that you have created corresponding instances with the Pay-By-Daily-Config (Trial) billing mode in the EIP and SLB consoles and have bound the EIP to the SLB instance.

You can expose services by using an existing SLB instance in the following two ways:

• YAML operations
  For more information, see Access services by using SLB.

• Console operations

  1. Log in to the KCE console.
  2. In the left navigation pane, click Cluster. The cluster management page appears.
  3. Click the ID of the cluster in which you want to create a service. The cluster details page appears.
  4. In the left navigation pane, choose Service Management > Service. The service list page appears.
  5. Click Create. The Create Service page appears. In the Access Settings section, find Annotation Parameter, add the service.beta.kubernetes.io/ksc-loadbalancer-id annotation, and set the value to the ID of the existing SLB instance.

Auto scaling

Auto scaling testing is not supported during trial use.