Overview
Kubernetes provides a set of default controllers for workload management,
like StatefulSet, Deployment, DaemonSet for instances. While at the same time, managed applications
express more and more diverse requirements for workload upgrade and deployment, which
in many cases, cannot be satisfied by the default workload controllers.
Kruise attempts to fill such gap by offering a set of controllers as the supplement
to manage new workloads in Kubernetes. The target use cases are representative,
originally collected from the users of Alibaba cloud container services and the
developers of the in-house large scale on-line/off-line container applications.
Most of the use cases can be easily applied to other similar cloud user scenarios.
Currently, Kruise supports the following workloads.
Features
You can view the full documentation from the official website.
Benefits
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In addition to serving new workloads, Kruise also offers extensions to default
controllers for new capabilities. Kruise owners will be responsible to port
any change to the default controller from upstream if it has an enhanced
version inside (e.g., Advanced StatefulSet).
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Kruise provides controllers for representative cloud native applications
with full Kubernetes API compatibility. Ideally, it can be the first option to
consider when one wants to extend upstream Kubernetes for workload management.
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Kruise plans to offer more Kubernetes automation solutions in the
areas of scaling, QoS and operators, etc. Stay tuned!
Tutorials
Several Tutorials are provided to demonstrate how to use the controllers