{"id":20678,"date":"2021-03-26T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=20678"},"modified":"2021-03-26T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T10:13:34","slug":"what-is-kops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/what-is-kops\/","title":{"rendered":"What is kops?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kops stands for &#8220;Kubernetes Operations&#8221;. Kops is the easiest way to get a production grade Kubernetes cluster up and running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>kops helps you in the following for production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters from the command line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Create Kubernetes clusters<\/li><li>Ddestroy Kubernetes clusters<\/li><li>Upgrade Kubernetes clusters and<\/li><li>Maintain Kubernetes clusters<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here is the Kops supported platform as per the June 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>AWS (Amazon Web Services) &#8211; officially supported<\/li><li>GCE &#8211; beta support<\/li><li>VMware vSphere &#8211; alpha<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Features of kops<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here are the list of features of kops<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Automates the provisioning of Kubernetes clusters in AWS, GCE &amp; VMware vSphere<\/li><li>Deploys Highly Available (HA) Kubernetes Masters<\/li><li>Built on a state-sync model for dry-runs and automatic idempotency<\/li><li>Ability to generate Terraform<\/li><li>Supports custom Kubernetes add-ons<\/li><li>Command line autocompletion<\/li><li>YAML Manifest Based API Configuration<\/li><li>Templating and dry-run modes for creating Manifests<\/li><li>Choose from eight different CNI Networking providers out-of-the-box<\/li><li>Supports upgrading from kube-up<\/li><li>Capability to add containers, as hooks, and files to nodes via a cluster manifest<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\" aria-describedby=\"shcb-language-1\" data-shcb-language-name=\"JavaScript\" data-shcb-language-slug=\"javascript\"><span><code class=\"hljs language-javascript\">How to install kops <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> Mac using Homebrew?\r\n$ brew update &amp;&amp; brew install kops\r\n\r\nHow to install kops <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> Linux?\r\n$ curl -LO https:<span class=\"hljs-comment\">\/\/github.com\/kubernetes\/kops\/releases\/download\/$(curl -s https:\/\/api.github.com\/repos\/kubernetes\/kops\/releases\/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '\"' -f 4)\/kops-linux-amd64<\/span>\r\n$ chmod +x kops-linux-amd64\r\n$ sudo mv kops-linux-amd64 \/usr\/local\/bin\/kops\r\n\r\nHow to verify kops installation?\r\n$ kops<\/code><\/span><small class=\"shcb-language\" id=\"shcb-language-1\"><span class=\"shcb-language__label\">Code language:<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__name\">JavaScript<\/span> <span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">(<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__slug\">javascript<\/span><span class=\"shcb-language__paren\">)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kops stands for &#8220;Kubernetes Operations&#8221;. 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,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20679,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20678\/revisions\/20679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}