Deploy on prem Kubernetes. What is the best approach paid and unpaid to deploy a cluster on premise with burst to azure/aws? The only need is the ability to have some static pods. I do have a preference for free/open source solutions.

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  • kip

    Virtual-kubelet provider running pods in cloud instances (by elotl)

    I just stumbled upon this project a while back and don't have experience with it, so I don't know how well it works and what caveats you may face, but there's Virtual Kubelet, which aims to do just that, i.e. running a virtual Kubernetes node outside the cluster. Its Kip provider sounds like the thing you're looking for.

  • virtual-kubelet

    Virtual Kubelet is an open source Kubernetes kubelet implementation.

    I just stumbled upon this project a while back and don't have experience with it, so I don't know how well it works and what caveats you may face, but there's Virtual Kubelet, which aims to do just that, i.e. running a virtual Kubernetes node outside the cluster. Its Kip provider sounds like the thing you're looking for.

  • 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.

  • machine-controller-manager

    Declarative way of managing machines for Kubernetes cluster

    If you define "burstable" as creating new nodes in the cloud: Can be achieved with the Machine Controller Manager that is also internally used by Gardener: https://github.com/gardener/machine-controller-manager. You would have a MachineDeployment CRD for different cloud providers that can be scaled just like a K8s deployment and creates cloud provider VMs underneath. (also scale to 0 is possible for certain providers) .

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