1. Jiacheng Xu
jiacheng@kubermatic.com
Manage Thousands of Kubernetes
Applications with Minimal Efforts
using KubeCarrier

2. Jiacheng Xu
Software Engineer
@jiachengxu
@xu_jiacheng
jiacheng@kubermatic.com
About Me
• Software engineer at Kubermatic
• Focusing on service and application management on
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform
• Core maintainer of KubeCarrier

3. What are Kubernetes Operators?
Custom Resource
Spec
Status
Operator
Control Loop
Managed Objects
Deployment
Service
ConfigMap
Update Watch
Update
Watch
● They help to automate full application lifecycle (deployment, upgrades, backups) within a cluster
● Managing individual application resources at multi-cluster level does not scale

4. What is KubeCarrier?
● An open source platform for managing applications and services across multiple
Kubernetes Clusters
● A generic solution to work with ANY Kubernetes operators
● A centralized Service Hub to provide services to users

5. Service Cluster 1
KubeCarrier
Instance
Operator
Instance
Management Cluster
Service Cluster 2
Instance
Operator
Instance
Service Cluster 3
Instance
Operator
Instance
Service User

6. KubeCarrier - The Operator of Operators
● Service Hub and Service Clusters
● One Management Cluster - single source of truth
(Service Hub)
● Multiple Service Clusters that run application
workloads
● Works with Kubernetes operators
● Application Operators run in Service Clusters
● KubeCarrier discovers their CRDs and make them
available for users in the Service Hub
● KubeCarrier propagates the CRs from the Service
Hub to Service Clusters to drive the operators
● Built-in multi-tenancy
● Multiple service providers and multiple service
consumers accounts are supported

7. ● Platform Operator:
● Operates the
Management Cluster
● Manages KubeCarrier
installation & accounts
● Service Provider:
● Manages Service Clusters
● Manages operators in SC
● Registers the services in
the Service Hub
● Manages service instances
● Service Consumer:
● Requests and manages
service instances

8. Multi-cluster application deployment with KubeCarrier
Get Started!

9. Questions?
jiacheng@kubermatic.com

10. ● Github: https://github.com/kubermatic/kubecarrier
● KubeCarrier Documentation: https://docs.kubermatic.com/kubecarrier/v0.3/

11. jiachengxu
@xu_jiacheng
jiacheng@kubermatic.com
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