kcp
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
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.
NB: In May 2023, the kcp project was restructured and components related to workload scheduling (e.g. the syncer) and the transparent multi cluster (tmc) code were removed due to lack of interest/maintainers. Please refer to the main-pre-tmc-removal branch if you are interested in the related code.
Documentation
Please visit docs.kcp.io/kcp for our documentation.
Contributing
We ❤️ our contributors! If you're interested in helping us out, please check out contributing to kcp.
This community has a Code of Conduct. Please make sure to follow it.
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
- Platform Engineering Day Europe 2024: Building a Platform Engineering API Layer with kcp – Marvin Beckers
- KubeCon EU 2024: Why Kubernetes Is Inappropriate for Platforms, and How to Make It Better – Stefan Schimanski, Mangirdas Judeikis, Sebastian Scheele
- KubeCon EU 2024: Kubernetes-style APIs for SaaS-like Control Planes with kcp – Marvin Beckers, Mangirdas Judeikis
- KubeCon US 2022: Kcp: Towards 1,000,000 Clusters, Name^WWorkspaced CRDs - Stefan Schimanski
- Rejekts US 2022: What if namespaces provided more isolation than just names? – Stefan Schimanski
- Let's Learn kcp - A minimal Kubernetes API server with Saiyam Pathak - July 7, 2021
- TGI Kubernetes 157: Exploring kcp: apiserver without Kubernetes
- K8s SIG Architecture meeting discussing kcp - June 29, 2021
- OpenShift Commons: Kubernetes as the Control Plane for the Hybrid Cloud - Clayton Coleman
- KubeCon EU 2021: Kubernetes as the Hybrid Cloud Control Plane Keynote - Clayton Coleman
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