kcp Documentation
Overview
kcp is a Kubernetes-like control plane focusing on:
- A control plane for many independent, isolated “clusters” known as workspaces
- Enabling API service providers to offer APIs centrally using multi-tenant operators
- Easy API consumption for users in their workspaces
- Advanced deployment strategies for scenarios such as affinity/anti-affinity, geographic replication, cross-cloud replication, etc.
kcp can be a building block for SaaS service providers who need a massively multi-tenant platform to offer services to a large number of fully isolated tenants using Kubernetes-native APIs. The goal is to be useful to cloud providers as well as enterprise IT departments offering APIs within their company.
Quickstart
To get started with trying out kcp on your local system, check out our Quickstart instructions.
Contributing
We ❤️ our contributors! If you're interested in helping us out, please head over to our Contributing guide.
Getting in touch
There are several ways to communicate with us:
- The
#kcp-devchannel in the Kubernetes Slack workspace. - Our mailing lists:
- By joining the kcp-dev mailing list, you should receive an invite to our bi-weekly community meetings.
- See recordings of past community meetings on YouTube.
- The next community meeting dates are available via our CNCF community group.
- Check the community meeting notes document for future and past meeting agendas.
- Browse the shared Google Drive to share design docs, notes, etc.
- Members of the kcp-dev mailing list can view this drive.
Additional references
- KubeCon EU 2021: Kubernetes as the Hybrid Cloud Control Plane Keynote - Clayton Coleman (video)
- OpenShift Commons: Kubernetes as the Control Plane for the Hybrid Cloud - Clayton Coleman (video)
- TGI Kubernetes 157: Exploring kcp: apiserver without Kubernetes
- K8s SIG Architecture meeting discussing kcp - June 29, 2021
- Let's Learn kcp - A minimal Kubernetes API server with Saiyam Pathak - July 7, 2021