K8s Federation v2 — a guide on how to get started
Recently I had the privilege of presenting my latest findings of Kubernetes Federation v2 at the OpenInfra Days in London. While investigating the subject, I realised there are only a handful of resources available to help you get started. Henceforth, this blog post aims to provide a guide on incipient stages of experimenting with Federation v2.
Before I deep dive into the topic, I would like to present the use case for federated clusters at Condé Nast International. For over a century Condé Nast International has set the benchmark for print and digital publishing. With brands like Vogue, GQ, Wired, Condé Nast Traveller under our umbrella we are operating in more than 16 markets across the globe. Hence, having a scalable, fault tolerant and highly available platform combined with a robust delivery process is the raison d’etre of the cloud platform team. Currently, we are hosting multiple Kubernetes clusters and application management can easily become a tedious process. To enable the creation of new clusters with minimal effort, we are investigating Federation v2 and the features it provides.
