kOps - Kubernetes Operations ¶

The easiest way to get a production grade Kubernetes cluster up and running.

2020-05-06 etcd-manager Certificate Expiration Advisory ¶

kops versions released today contain a critical fix to etcd-manager: 1 year after creation (or first adopting etcd-manager), clusters will stop responding due to expiration of a TLS certificate. Upgrading kOps to 1.15.3, 1.16.2, 1.17.0-beta.2, or 1.18.0-alpha.3 is highly recommended. Please see the advisory for the full details.

What is kOps? ¶

We like to think of it as kubectl for clusters.

kops will not only help you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes cluster, but it will also provision the necessary cloud infrastructure.

AWS (Amazon Web Services) is currently officially supported, with DigitalOcean, GCE, and OpenStack in beta support, and Azure and AliCloud in alpha.

Can I see it in action? ¶

Features ¶

Automates the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters in AWS and GCE
Deploys Highly Available (HA) Kubernetes Masters
Built on a state-sync model for dry-runs and automatic idempotency
Ability to generate Terraform
Supports managed kubernetes add-ons
Command line autocompletion
YAML Manifest Based API Configuration
Templating and dry-run modes for creating Manifests
Choose from eight different CNI Networking providers out-of-the-box
Supports upgrading from kube-up
Capability to add containers, as hooks, and files to nodes via a cluster manifest