Sponsored Lightning Talk: Beyond Federation: Automating Multi-cloud Workloads with K8s Native APIs

The presentation discusses the challenges of managing workloads and resources in multiple Kubernetes clusters across clouds and proposes a solution using Kubernetes native APIs.

• 93% of enterprises have a strategy to use multiple cloud providers
• Challenges include API incompatibility, fragmentation of YAMLs, lack of simplified way to do per cluster customization, and limited resource scheduling
• Karmada project provides Kubernetes native APIs support with extra policies for dual active mode, disaster recovery, and vendor locking avoidance
• Karmada project also provides automatic allocation and migration across clusters, cluster affinity, multi-cluster splitting and rebalancing, and location agnostic API endpoint and access
• Propagation policy and override policy are key concepts provided by Karmada project
• Karmada project's synchronization mode between control plan and member clusters can be done either by centralized controller or agents

The presenter gives an example of using the propagation policy API to deploy applications across three zones to achieve higher availability. The spread constraint fields can be configured and applied to all deployments. The override policy can also be used to replace the image prefix with a specific address for dedicated image registry for clusters in a data center. The same YAML can be repeatedly submitted for deployment across multiple clusters.

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