Production cluster deployment strategies

The deployment of production-level clusters and even the development of clusters with Windows nodes requires a very different approach. There are three important questions that determine your options for the deployment of Kubernetes clusters:

• Are you deploying the cluster in the cloud or using on-premises bare metal or virtual machines?
• Do you need high availability (HA) set up?
• Do you need Windows containers support?

Let's summarize the most popular deployment tools currently available.

kubeadm

The first one is kubeadm (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm), which is a command-line tool focused on getting a minimum viable, secure cluster up and running in a user-friendly way...