Platform teams face a growing challenge: every project demands its own Kubernetes cluster, yet each cluster requires identical production-grade setup. While Cluster API streamlines cluster provisioning, the day-2 operations remain painful—teams resort to copy-pasted manifests, per-cluster repositories, cluster-specific configurations, and increasingly unmaintainable deployment pipelines.
This session demonstrates a practical solution to these operational challenges. Through live demonstration, I'll show how Cluster API and Cluster Inventory work together to transform multi-cluster management. You'll see automated addon deployment, scale-to-zero workload management with Knative, and automatic failover between clusters—all without duplicating configurations or scripts.
Key takeaways: Learn to provision clusters on-demand, automate addon and application deployment across clusters, reduce idle compute costs through scale-to-zero architecture, and ensure service continuity with automatic cluster failover. This approach dramatically reduces onboarding time while improving both availability and cost efficiency.