What is Kubespray?
It is a powerful open source tool for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters that provides a balance of implementation flexibility and ease of use. It is a composition of Ansible playbooks, inventory, provisioning tools, and domain knowledge for generic OS/Kubernetes clusters configuration management tasks.
Kubespray is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Can be deployed on AWS, GCE, Azure, OpenStack, vSphere, Equinix Metal (bare metal), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Experimental), or BaremetalHighly available clusterComposable (Choice of the network plugin for instance)Supports most popular Linux distributionsContinuous integration tests
Kubespray Pros & Cons
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Kubespray Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kubespray?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
