ClusterAPI

Introduction If you want to learn about the basics and key concepts of ClusterAPI, then check out my post on the Alpha back in June here - it covers the high level concepts and troubleshooting of ClusterAPI, as well as what it offers to you as a user who wants to set up Kubernetes. This blog is a look at what has changed and how you can use ClusterAPI to deploy K8s clusters on vSphere that use CNS and the CSI plugin for storage, that was introduced as part of vSphere 6....

Introduction K8s lifecycle is something people are still struggling with, despite amazing tools out there like kubeadm which take care of the K8s setup itself, we are still lacking something fundamental - they day-0 setup. Who/what actually creates the VMs and installs the packages on them so we can get to the stage that we can use kubeadm? Typically it’s up to the user, and as such can vary wildly - so how can that experience be improved, and even better - totally automated and declarative....