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GKE On-Prem Alpha 8 years ago

While the cluster can operate in a disconnected state, much of the functionality is provided by the connection to GCP. Things like UI integration, policy syncing, Stackdriver, etc. Our early focus is on datacenters that have a connection to the internet. However, we're starting to look a lot more are airgapped environments.

GKE On-Prem Alpha 8 years ago

Right now we're working with a Google-hardened Ubuntu image; same one we use for GKE. COS is still TBD.

GKE On-Prem Alpha 8 years ago

We're going to give a breakout session that goes into more depth on Wednesday @ 4:35pm. IO244.

Some quick details: It's a bit of a split between what GKE runs and what the customer runs. Alpha runs on vSphere 6.5 and we're packing up a Google-hardened OS in much the same way we package GKE for GCP. A lot of the integrations for things like networking and storage will be coming from partners. We'll also have remote mgmt capabilities so we can manage the cluster's control plane in much the same way our SREs do for GKE.

GKE On-Prem Alpha 8 years ago

Exactly. This is really the beginning of multi-cluster scenarios that work well across different environments. Failover from on-prem -> GKE is something we're working on.

GKE On-Prem Alpha 8 years ago

Masters will run on-prem. We have connection agent that let's us securely talk to the Kube API Server from GCP. We wanted to ensure that the cluster is fully functional even if the connection goes down.

GKE On-Prem Alpha 8 years ago

Hey Weston here from the GKE On-Prem team. Wifi is spotty at the conference but I'll try to answer questions as they come in.

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