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 helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line. AWS (Amazon Web Services) is currently officially supported, with GCE and OpenStack in beta support, and other platforms planned.

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 custom 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