3 years ago

Category: Data, Kubernetes

A surge of Kubernetes deployments in retail location, assembly lines and other “edge computing” environments is leading to cluster sprawl, which can be a security hazard, as Keith Basil, Rancher vice president of edge solutions, will discuss in his upcoming session at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, taking place this week virtually. In fact, Rancher, which is being acquired by SUSE, contends it is seeing a fundamental shift in Kubernetes usage towards the edge. The Kubernetes cluster as we know it, is no longer in the data center,” Basil said in an interview with The New Stack.

Reviewing Rancher data, Basil found that many customers had 500-700 clusters, with a few even running tens of thousands of clusters.

With Fleet, an agent is installed on a cluster that can configure that cluster then load the application.