Kubernetes as a Platform vs. Kubernetes as an API

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  • cluster-api

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

  • external-dns

    Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services

    Disclaimer: I work for AWS but had nothing to do with this blog post (I'm seeing it for the first time with everyone else here).

    I think this is an unfair summary of the post. Of course, using Kubernetes to orchestrate other AWS services is going to be a go-to example on the _AWS_ blog, but there is plenty of vendor-agnostic software doing similar things: DNS Records[1], Databases[2], even using Kubernetes CRDs to deploy Kubernetes[3].

    The idea of using Kubernetes as an API to orchestrate external resources doesn't inherently lock you into any single vendor.

    1: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • docs

    KubeDB Docs (by kubedb)

  • terraform

    Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

  • Ansible

    Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

  • kcp

    Kubernetes-like control planes for form-factors and use-cases beyond Kubernetes and container workloads. (by kcp-dev)

    I think that's the actual goal of kcp: https://github.com/kcp-dev/kcp

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