cluster-api-provider-vsphere vs cluster-api-provider-azure

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Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure (by kubernetes-sigs)

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349	Stars	285
1.7%	Growth	0.7%
9.7	Activity	9.8
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cluster-api-provider-vsphere

Posts with mentions or reviews of cluster-api-provider-vsphere. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-24.

VMware cluster – What host OS should we run Kubernetes on?
3 projects | /r/kubernetes | 24 Oct 2022
Good k3s/k8s tutorial/walkthrough/breakdown
1 project | /r/homelab | 2 Sep 2022

follow this guide https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere/blob/main/docs/getting_started.md
Terraform code for kubernetes on vsphere?
3 projects | /r/devops | 30 Aug 2022

Decided to use this. GitOps FTW https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere
What is going on with Kubernetes Microdistros?
5 projects | /r/kubernetes | 26 Jun 2022
Broadcom to Acquire VMware for $61B
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2022

Well, Cluster API depends on underlying providers and the VMWare provider is definitely a VMWare thing as it's maintained by them:
https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsph...
Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes and the WEDOS PXE bootable server farm
10 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Dec 2021
Right Sizing Clusters
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 22 Sep 2021

Hmm, there is https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere and https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/clusterapi/README.md
Serving up storage to docker containers.
3 projects | /r/homelab | 12 Sep 2021
upstream arm64 kubernetes cluster (v1.22.0, 3 controlplanes, kube-vip, 3 workers) on nvidia jetson AGX with ESXi arm edition and Cluster API vSphere
2 projects | /r/homelab | 10 Aug 2021

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-agx-xavier-developer-kit https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere
Advice for Kubernetes Kn00b but seasoned linux and vmware admin on best setup to learn containers/Kub. MiniKube + KubeVirt? Let me provide some details. Thanks for your help
2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 12 Jul 2021

Is your suoermicro running esxi + vCenter? If so check out https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-vsphere

cluster-api-provider-azure

Posts with mentions or reviews of cluster-api-provider-azure. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-09.

Anyway to automate the AKS cluster creation using Yaml?
4 projects | /r/AZURE | 9 Nov 2022
Kubernetes CRD/Operators for Azure resources
7 projects | /r/kubernetes | 2 Mar 2022

Azure already has something similar (https://github.com/Azure/azure-service-operator) and they recommend it over something like Crossplane. I do not have experience with it however. We use https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/ & https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure for AKS, and Crossplane for PostgreSQL & blob storage.
Is it possible to upgrade a node's kubelet using an operator?
4 projects | /r/kubernetes | 17 Feb 2022

We use https://cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io/ & https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure on production for AKS clusters. We do something similar for GKE clusters but we have our custom operator for that.
Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes and the WEDOS PXE bootable server farm
10 projects | /r/kubernetes | 23 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cluster-api-provider-vsphere and cluster-api-provider-azure you can also consider the following projects:

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

cluster-api-provider-openstack

cluster-api - Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle

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

cluster-api-provider-hetzner - Kubernetes Cluster API Provider Hetzner provides a consistent deployment and day 2 operations of "self-managed" Kubernetes clusters on Hetzner.

provider-jet-azure

cluster-api-provider-metal3 - Metal³ integration with https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api

cluster-api-provider-nested - Cluster API Provider for Nested Clusters

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