Cluster API Intro and Deep Dive

Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

2022-05-19

Authors: Vince Prignano, Yuvaraj Balaji Rao Kakaraparthi

Summary

Cluster API is a declarative lifecycle management tool for Kubernetes clusters that uses Kubernetes primitives. It aims to provide a common language and interface for managing Kubernetes clusters across different infrastructure providers.

Cluster API is a tool for declarative lifecycle management of Kubernetes clusters using Kubernetes primitives.
It aims to provide a common language and interface for managing Kubernetes clusters across different infrastructure providers.
It consists of a management cluster and a workload cluster.
The management cluster is the Kubernetes cluster used for managing other Kubernetes clusters.
The workload cluster is the Kubernetes cluster being managed by Cluster API.
Cluster API has plugable infrastructure providers for different environments.
It allows for high-level operations like scaling and auto-scaling of clusters.
VMware Tanzu is entirely built on Cluster API.

The goal of Cluster API is to avoid having to use two different declarative management systems for applications and infrastructure. By using Kubernetes to provision Kubernetes, Cluster API provides a common language and interface for managing Kubernetes clusters across different infrastructure providers. This allows for high-level operations like scaling and auto-scaling of clusters to be done in the same way across different environments.

Abstract

The Cluster Lifecycle SIG is the Special Interest Group that is responsible for building the user experience for deploying and upgrading Kubernetes clusters. Our mission is examining how we should change Kubernetes to make it easier to operate. In this deep dive, we will examine how Cluster API simplifies the cluster management experience for cluster operators by enabling consistent machine management across environments and quick stamping of Clusters using some new exciting features like ClusterClass.Click here to view captioning/translation in the MeetingPlay platform!

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