Applications Overview
What Are Applications in Bridge?
Applications in Armada Bridge are workloads that run on your Kubernetes clusters — custom applications and web services, or pre-configured catalog workloads. You deploy them onto clusters you created in Bridge, and manage their lifecycle from the Bridge UI or kubectl.
Bridge supports both custom workloads (your own containerized apps or Helm charts) and catalog workloads (pre-built templates such as NGINX, Kubeflow). Applications run on your clusters and use the compute and GPU resources allocated to those clusters. For deployment and management details, see Custom Application Deployment and Manage Workloads.
How It Works
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Cluster — You need a running Kubernetes cluster (created in Bridge with a template such as None, Ray, or NVIDIA NIM).
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Deploy — You deploy workloads onto the cluster: either custom apps (container images or Helm charts) or catalog applications and templates (e.g., NGINX). Bridge schedules the workload, pulls images or charts, and starts the application.
For step-by-step deployment, see Custom Application Deployment and Manage Workloads.
Next Steps
- Custom Application Deployment — Deploy custom applications (Helm or container) and monitor, scale, update, expose, or delete them.
- Manage Workloads — Create and manage custom and catalog workloads, and monitor status, logs, and metrics.
- NGINX Web Server — Deploy NGINX from the application catalog.