Cluster API & Cluster Autoscaler

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Combines Cluster API (CAPI) CRDs—Cluster, MachineDeployment, MachineSet, Machine—and provider implementations (Magalu Cloud/OpenStack/VM-based) with Cluster Autoscaler to automate on‑prem Kubernetes lifecycle and node autoscaling. Describes achieving reproducible clusters up to 254 worker nodes with typical provisioning in 3–5 minutes (VM creation ≈102s), using Autoscaler to scale up for Pending pods and scale down for FinOps savings, and contrasts provider tradeoffs (Carpenter/AWS tighter integration versus CAPI’s extensibility).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:21What is Cluster API
3. 8:25Cluster API components
4. 13:13Technical advantages
5. 17:13Fast cluster provisioning
6. 21:43Cluster API + Autoscaler
7. 26:26Practical benefits and use cases
8. 27:55Infrastructure contribution
9. 30:09Magalu Cloud future
10. 36:50Disaster recovery
11. 38:16Closing

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