Skip to content
Aether Docs

Create your first cluster

You create clusters from the Aether portal. A cluster comes up with a fully managed control plane and your worker nodes, ready to run workloads in a few minutes.

Create a cluster

Section titled “Create a cluster”

  1. Sign in to the portal and open Clusters.

  2. Click Create cluster and fill in:

    • Name — a short, descriptive name for the cluster.
    • Region — currently eu-fi (Helsinki).
    • Kubernetes version — pick from the supported versions.

  3. Submit the form. Aether begins provisioning immediately.

What Aether does behind the scenes

Section titled “What Aether does behind the scenes”

When you submit the form, Aether:

  • Provisions and starts your cluster’s managed control plane — you never have to operate or maintain it.
  • Installs the Cilium CNI, so networking and NetworkPolicy support are ready before your workloads land.
  • Brings up your worker nodes from the node pool you configured.

Watch it come up

Section titled “Watch it come up”

The cluster detail page streams a live activity / events feed while provisioning runs. You’ll see each step as it happens — control plane up, CNI installed, nodes joining — in real time.

When provisioning finishes, the cluster reaches the Ready state. That’s your signal that the control plane is healthy and your nodes have joined.

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”