cluster-api-provider-aws vs cluster-api-provider-nested

cluster-api-provider-aws

Kubernetes Cluster API Provider AWS provides consistent deployment and day 2 operations of "self-managed" and EKS Kubernetes clusters on AWS. (by kubernetes-sigs)

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cluster-api-aws.sigs.k8s.io

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cluster-api-provider-nested

Cluster API Provider for Nested Clusters (by kubernetes-sigs)

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8	Mentions	6
617	Stars	293
3.9%	Growth	0.3%
9.5	Activity	4.7
1 day ago	Latest Commit	8 days ago
Go	Language	Go
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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cluster-api-provider-aws

Posts with mentions or reviews of cluster-api-provider-aws. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-22.

Need advice related to building k8s operator
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 22 May 2023
Thank you, WeaveWorks!
1 project | /r/devops | 24 Mar 2023

Echo the sentiment about cluster API. I think that now the new Flux Terraform Provider resource that does bootstrap natively, might make some of these problems go away. But in our enterprise product, we're still leaning on Cluster API for most cluster creation, there is https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-aws which says it also has EKS support.
Help with project using existing SDK
1 project | /r/golang | 12 Mar 2023

You can take a look at what CAPA does.
Noob Q: Any idea why my Jobs won't run unless my Deployment is running?
1 project | /r/kubernetes | 26 Aug 2022

Like, CAPA for example (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-aws).
Use Cluster API to provision Kubernetes clusters
2 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2022

brew install kubectl clusterctl kind wget -O /usr/local/bin/clusterawsadm /usr/local/bin/ https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-aws/releases/download/v1.3.0/clusterawsadm-darwin-amd64 chmod +x /usr/local/bin/clusterawsadm
Kubernetes Cluster deployment using tekton
1 project | /r/devops | 26 Jan 2022
Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes and the WEDOS PXE bootable server farm
10 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Dec 2021

cluster-api-provider-nested

Posts with mentions or reviews of cluster-api-provider-nested. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-27.

Amazon EC2 Enhances Defense in Depth with Default IMDSv2
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023

Kubernetes has a lot of limitations from a multi tenancy perspective.
It's functional, but I think it's not as polished as the rest of Kubernetes which is why Kubernetes has a multi tenancy SIG that spawned the hierarchical namespace controller (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/hierarchical-namespaces) and virtual clusters (https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-nest...)
Multi-tenancy in Kubernetes
13 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023

Virtual Cluster (wg-multitenancy)
Any projects to run Kubernetes inside Kubernetes?
6 projects | /r/kubernetes | 20 Jun 2022

Also https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-nested, similar approach to vcluster, but part of the K8s project.
cluster-api-provider-nested/virtualcluster at main · kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-nested
1 project | /r/devopsish | 31 May 2022
Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes and the WEDOS PXE bootable server farm
10 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Dec 2021
Introduction to Multi-Tenancy in Kubernetes
3 projects | dev.to | 9 Dec 2021

Approach C This approach provides a way to implement hard isolation among Kubernetes tenants who have no trust between them. This provides segregated master plane components for each tenant by creating a mini virtual cluster on the super Kubernetes cluster. Admins can also create custom resources in those virtual clusters as well. This is provided by projects like VirtualCluster and vCluster.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cluster-api-provider-aws and cluster-api-provider-nested you can also consider the following projects:

cluster-api-provider-oci - Kubernetes Cluster API Provider for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

vcluster - vCluster - Create fully functional virtual Kubernetes clusters - Each vcluster runs inside a namespace of the underlying k8s cluster. It's cheaper than creating separate full-blown clusters and it offers better multi-tenancy and isolation than regular namespaces.

cluster-api-provider-kubevirt - Cluster API Provider for KubeVirt

cluster-api-provider-bringyourownhost - Kubernetes Cluster API Provider BYOH for already-provisioned hosts running Linux.

kamaji - Kamaji is the Hosted Control Plane Manager for Kubernetes.

cluster-api-provider-packet - Cluster API Provider Packet (now Equinix Metal)

cluster-api-provider-openstack

hierarchical-namespaces - Home of the Hierarchical Namespace Controller (HNC). Adds hierarchical policies and delegated creation to Kubernetes namespaces for improved in-cluster multitenancy.

cluster-api-provider-azure - Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure

cluster-api-provider-vsphere