kops VS kubeadm

Compare kops vs kubeadm and see what are their differences.

kops

Kubernetes Operations (kOps) - Production Grade k8s Installation, Upgrades and Management (by kubernetes)

kubeadm

Aggregator for issues filed against kubeadm (by kubernetes)
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kops kubeadm
47 10
15,492 3,642
0.6% 0.7%
9.9 7.6
8 days ago 9 days ago
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kops

Posts with mentions or reviews of kops. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-23.

kubeadm

Posts with mentions or reviews of kubeadm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
  • A local Kubernetes cluster in seconds with Kind
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2023
    It works on top of KubeADM, you can also implement specific configuration about it.
  • Kubernetes from Scratch in 2022
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Sep 2022
    Kubeadm is a more barebones tool, focusing on cluster node setup and Kubernetes component installation. Itā€™s a command line tool that facilitates the various setup operations, but configuration needs to be done manually and per node.
  • Kubernetes production best practices
    2 projects | /r/kubernetes | 7 Sep 2021
    This is a useful guide on how to set them up (note: the version of HAProxy they specify is no longer being maintained, but you can upgrade it to a later version): Kubeadm - HA Considerations
  • What is the right AWS Kubernetes distribution for you?
    4 projects | dev.to | 10 Feb 2021
    Kubeadm is a cluster provisioning tool implementing the best-practices for creating Kubernetes clusters (following Kubernetes The Hard Way steps). Kubeadm performs the actions necessary to get a minimum viable and secure cluster. It follows Kubernetes operator architectural approach for cluster creation and management. What is also important, Kubeadm is an official Kubernetes SIG Lifecycle project - this is important because official Kubernetes SIG projects usually tent to have better community support and be more mature than their non-official counterparts.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kops and kubeadm you can also consider the following projects:

kubespray - Deploy a Production Ready Kubernetes Cluster

k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes

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

rancher - Complete container management platform

microk8s - MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.

kubernetes-the-hard-way - Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way on Google Cloud Platform. No scripts.

eksctl - The official CLI for Amazon EKS

helm - The Kubernetes Package Manager

aws-node-termination-handler - Gracefully handle EC2 instance shutdown within Kubernetes

k9s - šŸ¶ Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

minikube - Run Kubernetes locally