Leveraging Cluster-API for Production-Ready Multi-Regional Infrast... Shotaro Gotanda & Kotaro Inoue
Channel: CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
Date: 22/11/2023

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Leveraging Cluster-API for Production-Ready Multi-Regional Infrastructures - Shotaro Gotanda & Kotaro Inoue, LY Corporation

LY Corporation is a tech company widely recognized for the LINE messaging application in APAC. Here, both user-facing services and cloud infrastructure services(Iaas, KaaS, DBaaS, etc.) operate on top of Kubernetes. In early 2023, we, the Kubernetes Service team, successfully switched to the Cluster-API to manage our hundreds of clusters across multiple private cloud regions. However, our journey was pretty tough and a consecutive challenges. In this talk, we will explain: • How we determined that Cluster API was right for us; • Why we developed a new Cluster-API provider rather than using Cluster-API-Provider-Openstack; • What customizations to the control plane we needed for our own private cloud; • How we supported migration from our old infrastructure to Cluster API; • What we would do differently if we started over. We would like to share our experience and lesson learned to provide the potential obstacles and insights on adopting Cluster-API in a private cloud environment.