Anatomy of a production grade Kubernetes cluster
summary
A concrete production Kubernetes layout built only with CNCF open-source tools: dedicated infrastructure nodes, HA control plane behind a load‑balancer, node agents for logs, and per‑project agents for permissions. Monitoring uses Prometheus (with prometheus‑operator and kube‑state‑metrics) plus Thanos for long‑term storage and Grafana for dashboards; backups with Velero (Ark); ingress via nginx or Kong; provisioning via Terraform or CloudFormation; manifests managed with Kustomize. The team maintains a small in‑house distro and a lightweight dependency tool (“fioristi”) that pins versions and runs for customers, and they publish the components as reusable open‑source modules.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome
- 3:14CNCF and Kubernetes role
- 7:55Production cluster core
- 10:24Production cluster reference
- 13:55Monitoring with Prometheus
- 16:22Logging and audit
- 17:44Disaster recovery with Velero
- 18:46RBAC and security
- 19:54High availability and etcd
- 21:42Conclusion
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