Security News > 2023 > November > k0smotron: Open-source Kubernetes cluster management

Open-source solution k0smotron is enterprise-ready for production-grade Kubernetes cluster management with two support options.

The k0smotron operator is deployed onto an existing Kubernetes cluster, designated as the management cluster similar to a "Mothership," that orchestrates and provides control plane services on demand.

"k0smotron simplifies this by allowing Kubernetes control planes to operate as individual pods within a single overarching Kubernetes environment. This 'Kubernetes within Kubernetes' approach is resource-efficient and tailor-made for organizations with diverse development teams needing their own specialized clusters. With k0smotron now enterprise-ready and backed up by Mirantis' official support, we're redefining the benchmarks of Kubernetes cluster management."

K0smotron supports multi-cloud deployments with the control plane management cluster in a public or private cloud provider and worker nodes in various clouds with unified cluster management.

We thought: "Dang, that would work at scale. We could solve the multi-cluster Kubernetes challenge in a new way: launch, host, scale, and manage containerized control planes on any Kubernetes, using an operator. The control planes are Kubernetes applications, so Kubernetes can manage and support and fix them, and restart them in new places when nodes fail, and so on."

Everything in k0smotron is managed as Kubernetes resources, so experienced Kubernetes users, in a sense, already know everything they need to know.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/11/14/k0smotron-open-source-kubernetes-cluster-management/