karmada-io/karmada
Open, Multi-Cloud, Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Orchestration
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 325 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Enables orchestration and management of Kubernetes applications across multiple clusters and clouds using Kubernetes-native APIs.
- Provides centralized multi-cloud Kubernetes management with advanced scheduling, failover, and load balancing without vendor lock-in.
- Use for deploying and managing cloud-native applications seamlessly across hybrid and multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters.
- Use for implementing disaster recovery and geo-redundant Kubernetes workloads with automated failover and traffic scheduling.
- Use for consolidating Kubernetes cluster operations from public cloud, on-premises, and edge environments under a single control plane.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
Karmada (Kubernetes Armada) is a Kubernetes management system that enables you to run your cloud-native applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters and clouds, with no changes to your applications. By speaking Kubernetes-native APIs and providing advanced scheduling capabilities, Karmada enables truly open, multi-cloud Kubernetes.
Karmada aims to provide turnkey automation for multi-cluster application management in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud scenarios, with key features such as centralized multi-cloud management, high availability, failure recovery, and traffic scheduling.
Karmada is an incubation project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Notice: this project is developed in continuation of Kubernetes Federation v1 and v2. Some basic concepts are inherited from these two versions.
The Karmada Control Plane consists of the following components:
ETCD stores the Karmada API objects, the API Server is the REST endpoint all other components talk to, and the Karmada Controller Manager performs operations based on the API objects you create through the API server.
The Karmada Controller Manager runs the various controllers, the controllers watch Karmada objects and then talk to the underlying clusters' API servers to create regular Kubernetes resources.
Daily snapshots
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+190 stars over 83 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +9 on Sep 20.
Forks
1.2K+65
Open issues
901+60
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| awslabs/mcp | 9.8K | — | 65 | 9 days ago |
| karmada-io/karmada | 5.8K | — | 65 | 2 days ago |
| Category median | 14.7K | +233 | 63 | — |
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