Kubernetes As A Service with GitOps

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Shows a concrete flow: use kind to create a bootstrap cluster, run cluster API controllers (clusterctl) to provision a kubeadm-based workload cluster on Hetzner, apply a CNI (Calico/Cilium) and cloud-controller-manager, then move controllers onto the workload so the cluster becomes self-managed. Advocates GitOps for cluster and workload YAMLs (Flux), outlines secret options (Vault or encrypted secrets) and CI bootstrapping, and warns that scaling to hundreds of clusters hits cloud API throttling rather than CAPI limits. Demonstration builds working clusters end-to-end.

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1. 0:00Introduction and setup
2. 2:12Cluster API overview
3. 8:51Bootstrapping with Cluster API
4. 16:11Post-provisioning steps
5. 20:26Managing multiple clusters
6. 25:43GitOps for workloads with Flux
7. 27:08Q&A session

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