Aspirational: Create view(s) more appropriate to manage large scale k8s operations

[aalves08]

Large scale k8s operations might face some challenges with managing their k8s infrastructures. Thinking of Edge devices is a scenario where we might have thousands of clusters of devices.

Could we provide, at least, a better overview in those cases? How would that interface would look like? Create an extension or more to customise the UI to those particular usecases?

Also, scenarios where multi-tier Rancher might be employed due to sheer scale is an important factor to consider.

[richard-cox]

Just in terms of managing large number of resources (upstream clusters, bindings, namespaces, etc and downstream pods, secrets, configmaps, etc), this will be covered by the pagination work. This covers not only lists but removing places where we fetch all of a resource to show summary / additional information.

Multi-tier rancher's would be a specific use case where i think the promise involve abstracting states up the chain

[aalves08]

Yes, in fact all of that performance work is going to make it much easier to manage k8s resources at scale with Dashboard.

The idea here is more in line of offering a different overview to those use cases, especially in a multi-tier scenario, where I believe the end user (depending on it's role) might benefit from rather than the traditional Rancher view. Abstracting states up the chain is a must for this to work, for sure.

I am thinking even in different overviews for different roles of k8s admin, which might be a plus for XL-k8s-management enterprises.

Food for thought after attending Susecon 🙏