Karmada: Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration

 

Karmada (Kubernetes Armada) is a Kubernetes management system that enables you to run your cloud-native applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters and clouds, with no changes to your applications. By speaking Kubernetes-native APIs and providing advanced scheduling capabilities, Karmada enables truly open, multi-cloud Kubernetes.

Karmada aims to provide turnkey automation for multi-cluster application management in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud scenarios, with key features such as centralized multi-cloud management, high availability, failure recovery, and traffic scheduling.

 

Karmada Use Cases

  1. Cross region/AZ deployment for applications to achieve HA
  2. Cross cloud migration when disaster occured
  3. Automatic scaling out from on-prem to cloud when load burst

 

Why Karmada

  • K8s Native API Compatible
    • Zero change upgrade, from single-cluster to multi-cluster
    • Seamless integration of existing K8s tool chain
  • Out of the Box
    • Built-in policy sets for scenarios, including: Active-active, Remote DR, Geo Redundant, etc.
    • Cross-cluster applications auto-scaling, failover and load-balancing on multi-cluster.
  • Avoid Vendor Lock-in
    • Integration with mainstream cloud providers
    • Automatic allocation, migration across clusters
    • Not tied to proprietary vendor orchestration
  • Centralized Management
    • Location agnostic cluster management
    • Support clusters in Public cloud, on-prem or edge
  • Fruitful Multi-Cluster Scheduling Policies
    • Cluster Affinity, Multi Cluster Splitting/Rebalancing,
    • Multi-Dimension HA: Region/AZ/Cluster/Provider
  • Open and Neutral
    • Jointly initiated by Internet, finance, manufacturing, teleco, cloud providers, etc.
    • Target for open governance with CNCF
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