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What is kops?

March 26, 2021 comments off

Kops stands for “Kubernetes Operations”. Kops is the easiest way to get a production grade Kubernetes cluster up and running.

kops helps you in the following for production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line.

  • Create Kubernetes clusters
  • Ddestroy Kubernetes clusters
  • Upgrade Kubernetes clusters and
  • Maintain Kubernetes clusters

Here is the Kops supported platform as per the June 2018.

  1. AWS (Amazon Web Services) – officially supported
  2. GCE – beta support
  3. VMware vSphere – alpha

Features of kops

Here are the list of features of kops

  • Automates the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters in AWS, GCE & VMware vSphere
  • Deploys Highly Available (HA) Kubernetes Masters
  • Built on a state-sync model for dry-runs and automatic idempotency
  • Ability to generate Terraform
  • Supports custom Kubernetes add-ons
  • Command line autocompletion
  • YAML Manifest Based API Configuration
  • Templating and dry-run modes for creating Manifests
  • Choose from eight different CNI Networking providers out-of-the-box
  • Supports upgrading from kube-up
  • Capability to add containers, as hooks, and files to nodes via a cluster manifest
How to install kops in Mac using Homebrew?
$ brew update && brew install kops

How to install kops in Linux?
$ curl -LO https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-linux-amd64
$ chmod +x kops-linux-amd64
$ sudo mv kops-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/kops

How to verify kops installation?
$ kops
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