How to Build a Bespoke, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Platform with Open Source

Radio Cloud Native by Mirantis

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This episode is once again presented by Daniel Virassamy, Principal Solution Architect at Mirantis, who describes himself as curious by nature and open source by choice. Daniel will walk you through the steps and best practices for building your very own, bespoke, multi-cluster Kubernetes platform leveraging open source components and tools. He will also present some open source-based solutions from Mirantis that drastically streamline multi-cluster management at scale, as well as open source integrations that will optimize your Kubernetes spend and operations.
A full list of topics for this episode includes:

• Current multi-cluster landscape
• Where to run your infrastructure
• Core infrastructure services for multi-cluster
• How to choose a Kubernetes Distro
• How to choose a multi-cluster management solution
• Implementing a UI Portal & APIs
• Adding Observability & application delivery
• Common use cases for multi-cluster

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Capitole

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Current landscape: multi-cluster management solutions (00:01:08)

3. Step 1: where to run your Infra (00:06:48)

4. Multi-AZ Infra Deployment Example (00:09:25)

5. Core infrastructure services (00:11:24)

6. Step 2: selecting a K8s Distribution (00:16:35)

7. Step 3: adding multi-cluster management (00:21:58)

8. Step 4: creating a UI & accessing via APIs (00:26:05)

9. Adding Observability & App Delivery (00:28:05)

10. Common use cases (00:28:58)

11. Recapping the purpose of this talk (00:30:20)

12. Outro (00:31:48)