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KubeClipper: Convenient Kubernetes Lifecycle Management

by Shriira Press

KubeClipper is a lightweight CNCF Sandbox project that turns the hardest part of running Kubernetes — standing clusters up and keeping them healthy — into a guided experience. It installs on a single host with one command, then creates conformant clusters on existing bare-metal, virtual, or cloud machines through a friendly web console, an API, or the kcctl CLI. From the same place it manages the whole lifecycle: adding and removing nodes, upgrading versions, backing up and restoring etcd, opening web terminals, and installing plugins. This book explains the problem it solves, its kc-server and kc-agent architecture over a NATS message bus, the cluster-operation-step model, day-two operations, access control and high availability, and where it fits among cluster-management tools.

Contents

1. 1Preface
2. 2Chapter 1 — What KubeClipper Is
3. 3Chapter 2 — Architecture: Server, Agent, and the Message Bus
4. 4Chapter 3 — Clusters, Operations, and Steps
5. 5Chapter 4 — Creating a Cluster
6. 6Chapter 5 — Day-Two Operations
7. 7Chapter 6 — Access, Plugins, and High Availability
8. 8Chapter 7 — KubeClipper in Practice