Understanding Cluster-API Structure via the OpenStack Provider
summary
Demonstrates using the Cluster-API OpenStack provider (CAPO) to create a Kubernetes cluster: a kind bootstrap cluster calls OpenStack APIs to provision VMs from cloud‑init images, run kubeadm on masters, and join worker nodes. Shows MachineDeployment scaling by changing replica counts and watching CAPO create OpenStack VMs until nodes are Ready, and notes required image contents (cloud‑init, Docker, CNI) as the demo hands control from the bootstrap to the real control plane.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Cluster-API motivation
- 4:34Cluster-API lifecycle
- 8:19Cluster-API components
- 11:39OpenStack provider setup
- 15:08Demo prerequisites
- 17:43OpenStack config files
- 23:37Bootstrapping cluster
- 25:10Creating bootstrap cluster
- 28:55OpenStack VM provisioning
- 30:00Finalizing master nodes
- 33:10Scaling worker nodes
- 34:18Summary
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