OpenShift Multi-Cluster GitOps and Management

In the first chapter of this book, we discussed the main challenges most organizations face in scaling their Kubernetes infrastructure in a multi- or hybrid-cloud world. New challenges arise when you deploy multiple clusters on different providers, such as the following:

• Inconsistent security policies: Clusters with different configurations regarding access rules and user profiles, allowed/blocked network flows, certificates, and other security aspects make an organization more vulnerable to data breaches and other security events.
• High operational effort to manage all clusters: Managing configurations, components, compliance, and policies for several clusters is overwhelming.
• Deploying and managing applications: The deployment process becomes much more complicated when you need to do it over several clusters. Monitoring and managing them are also really complex and require a lot of human effort.

In this chapter,...