Kubernetes as a Service in Your Own Data Center
summary
A private cloud called Photon platform delivers Kubernetes-as-a-Service on bare metal using ESXi, Photon OS, Photon Controller and the Xenon control plane (3-node quorum typical). It provisions clusters on demand, supports multiple Kubernetes versions, and does automatic node replacement and no-downtime cluster resizing. Networking uses NSX with per-namespace segmentation and a distributed firewall; storage uses vSphere datastores/vSAN with storage-policy flavors. Core components are open source on GitHub and VMware offers commercial 1‑call support.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:45Kubernetes is a service
- 3:04No integrated solution
- 5:10What is Photon Platform
- 7:17Users of Photon Platform
- 7:59Control Plane
- 8:40Application Developers
- 13:08Control Plane Components
- 15:32Delivery Model
- 16:06Whats Involved
- 19:47Dynamic Provisioning
- 23:13Demo
- 28:12Resource Reservations
- 30:26Networking
- 31:11NSX Integration
- 33:02NSX Control Plane
- 36:03Micro Segmentation
- 37:04Storage Management
- 39:48Multitenancy
- 42:51Open Source
- 44:19Switching out the OS
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