Kubernetes Operations (kOps)

wikipedia:Kubernetes Operations

• https://github.com/kubernetes/kops

Features:

• Ability to generate Terraform (--target=terraform)

https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/blob/master/docs/addons.md

spec:
  AwsLoadBalancerController
  clusterAutoscaler
  certManager
  karpenter
  metricsServer
  nodeLocalDNS
  nodeTerminationHandler
  Queue Processor mode (enableSQSTerminationDraining)
  nodeProblemDetector
  podIdentityWebhook when using IRSA
  snapshotController
  awsEBSCSIDriver aws-ebs-csi-driver

As of January 2022 AWS (Amazon Web Services) officially supported, with DigitalOcean, GCE and OpenStack in beta support, and Azure and AliCloud in alpha.

Installation

curl -Lo kops https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-linux-amd64
chmod +x kops
sudo mv kops /usr/local/bin/kops

• KOPS: creating kops user and permissions

kops export kubecfg --admin

Related terms

• kubectl
• tEKS
• terragrunt
• Kubespray

See also

• KOPS, kops create, brew install kops, kops --help