What open source project does vSphere Supervisor use to automate the lifecycle management of VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) clusters?

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Options

• ACluster API
• BGrafana
• CContour
• DKubeadm

• A
  93% (42)
• B
  4% (2)
• C
  2% (1)

Explanation

According to the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0.4 Architecture and Design Guide, the vSphere Supervisor leverages the Cluster API open-source project to provide declarative, Kubernetes- style APIs for the creation, configuration, and lifecycle management of VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) clusters. The documentation states: "The Cluster API provides declarative, Kubernetes-style APIs for cluster creation, configuration, and management. The inputs to Cluster API include a resource describing the cluster, a set of resources describing the virtual machines that make up the cluster, and a set of resources describing cluster add-ons." This API-driven model allows for automated provisioning and scaling of Kubernetes clusters by defining the desired state through YAML manifests. Cluster API (CAPI) is a CNCF open-source project that VMware has extended and integrated into vSphere Supervisor to deliver infrastructure-level automation, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and lifecycle management for In contrast, Grafana is used for monitoring, Contour for ingress control, and Kubeadm is a bootstrapping tool for standalone Kubernetes clusters -- none of which provide cluster lifecycle automation in VKS.

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