Introducing the Gardener project
The Gardener project is an open source project developed by SAP. It lets you manage thousands (yes, thousands!) of Kubernetes clusters efficiently and economically. Gardener solves a very complex problem, and the solution is elegant but not simple. Gardener is the only project that addresses both the cluster lifecycle and application lifecycle.
In this section, we will cover the terminology of Gardener and its conceptual model, dive deep into its architecture, and learn about its extensibility features. The primary theme of Gardener is to use Kubernetes to manage Kubernetes clusters. A good way to think about Gardener is Kubernetes-control-plane-as-a-service.
See https://gardener.cloud for more details.
Understanding the terminology of Gardener
The Gardener project, as you may have guessed, uses botanical terminology to describe the world. There is a garden, which is a Kubernetes cluster responsible for managing seed clusters. A seed...
