Introduction to SIG Cluster Lifecycle
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual · on Friday, 2020-11-20· at 15:10· Intrado Virtual Event Platform,·
summary
SIG Cluster Lifecycle focuses on simplifying creation, configuration, upgrade, downgrade and teardown of Kubernetes clusters by building tools that chain together: kubeadm as the bootstrapper, Cluster API as a declarative, machine-typed control plane (machines are immutable and upgraded via machineDeployment → machineSet patterns analogous to Deployment/ReplicaSet), and image builder which uses Packer/Ansible and goss/inspec to produce VM images for ubuntu, centos, photon, amazon linux (flatcar soon) across VMware, AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean. Many subprojects remain alpha/beta and list concrete issues and docs for contributor onboarding.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:12Vision
- 2:58The Stack
- 4:35Unix Philosophy
- 5:24Pseudo Voltron Example
- 5:58Survey for 2020 The SIG held a user survey during KubeCon EU 2020
- 8:09Cluster API: Design
- 10:33Cluster API: Roadmap
- 11:49Cluster API: Learn More
- 14:38ComponentConfig: Learn More
- 16:07ImageBuilder: Goals
- 16:38ImageBuilder: Roadmap
- 17:23ImageBuilder: Learn More
- 17:44Help Wanted
- 18:28How you can contribute
