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Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Strategies

Running Kubernetes across multiple cloud providers offers high availability and avoids vendor lock-in. Common strategies include:

  • Federation: Control plane spans multiple clusters.
  • Service Mesh: Tools like Istio or Linkerd unify networking between clusters.
  • CI/CD Pipelines: Deploy to different environments from the same pipeline.

Tooling Options:

  • kubefed: Kubernetes Federation v2
  • Rancher: Unified multi-cluster management
  • Crossplane: Manage cloud infrastructure via Kubernetes

Example Federation Control Plane Init:

kubefedctl join cluster2 \
  --cluster-context cluster2 \
  --host-cluster-context cluster1 \
  --add-to-registry
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