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---
title: Kops
id: kops
date: 2018-04-12
full_link: /docs/getting-started-guides/kops/
short_description: >
A CLI tool that helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters. *NOTE: Officially supports AWS only, with GCE and VMware vSphere in alpha*.
aka:
tags:
- tool
- operation
---
A CLI tool that helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters. *NOTE: Officially supports AWS only, with GCE and VMware vSphere in alpha*.
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`kops` provisions your cluster with&#58;
* Fully automated installation
* DNS-based cluster identification
* Self-healing&#58; everything runs in Auto-Scaling Groups
* Limited OS support (Debian preferred, Ubuntu 16.04 supported, early support for CentOS & RHEL)
* High availability (HA) support
* The ability to directly provision, or generate terraform manifests
You can also build your own cluster using {{< glossary_tooltip term_id="kubeadm" >}} as a building block. `kops` builds on the kubeadm work.