virtual-kubelet/virtual-kubelet

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Virtual Kubelet is an open-source Kubernetes kubelet implementation that masquerades as a kubelet to connect Kubernetes clusters to other APIs, such as serverless container platforms like ACI and AWS Fargate. It is primarily a Go library with a pluggable provider interface for building custom Kubernetes node agents backed by arbitrary services.

Use cases

• connect kubernetes to serverless container platforms like aci or fargate
• build a custom kubernetes node agent backed by another api
• schedule pods onto external compute without managing vms
• extend the kubernetes api to iot edge or other providers
• implement a pluggable kubelet provider in go
• run kubernetes pods on nomad or other schedulers

When to choose

• you want kubernetes to schedule pods onto serverless or external compute backends
• you need to build a custom node provider using a well-defined Go interface
• you want a CNCF-backed, widely adopted way to bridge Kubernetes to other APIs

When to avoid

• you need multi-cluster federation - Virtual Kubelet explicitly is not a federation solution
• you just need a regular kubelet on real VMs or bare metal
• you are not working within the Kubernetes ecosystem

Facets

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container-orchestration cloud serverless sdk plugin-system cloud-computing infrastructure-as-code microservices go cloud kubelet kubernetes-nodes serverless-containers cncf pod-lifecycle provider-interface containers devops kubernetes docker linux

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