The Ins & Outs of the Cloud Provider in Kubernetes - Michael McCune & Joel Speed & Bridget Kromhout

The Ins and Outs of the Cloud Provider in Kubernetes - Michael McCune & Joel Speed, Red Hat & Bridget Kromhout, Microsoft Speakers: Michael McCune, Bridget Kromhout, Joel Speed How do Kubernetes clusters interact with cloud services? In this session, the maintainers of SIG Cloud Provider will take a deep dive into the cloud provider framework, including how to implement an external cloud provider using the cloud provider interface, the cloud controller manager responsibilities, and an overview of the Kubelet image credential provider. We will also discuss the migration to external cloud providers in an HA configuration. We will identify trouble spots and processes that you should be aware of as you plan your migrations, and we will walk through the steps you can take to ensure zero downtime Kubernetes clusters as you perform this migration. Expect to walk away from this session with newfound knowledge about how Kubernetes interacts with cloud providers, an understanding of how to build an external cloud controller manager, and a solid plan of action for how you can migrate to external cloud controller managers without downtime.