Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2018

As more and more companies start running their applications in Kubernetes clusters, the greater will be the need for Federations of Kubernetes Clusters, which will include clusters running on top of different cloud providers (e.g. Google Cloud, AWS), as well as on-premises (e.g. on VSphere, OpenStack).

K8s Clusters in multiple regions/providers will benefit both users and
operators. Users will be served in lower latency with high availability, while the operators will be able to use public cloud resources to cover for peak workloads. At the same time workloads can be migrated easier across clusters, and therefore federation prevents infrastructure provider lock-in and better cost management.

There are many good tools which can deploy and update a single Kubernetes cluster using a single cloud provider. However, there aren’t that many tools that can set up multiple clusters on different cloud providers or on-premise data centers in a consistent way. Such tool would be of great help.

In this talk the presenters explore how CFCR, by leveraging the Multi-CPI feature of Bosh, can deploy a federated kubernetes deployment containing k8s clusters spread over multiple IaaSes.