website/_data/glossary/kops.yaml

id: kops
name: Kops
full-link: /docs/getting-started-guides/kops/
tags:
- tool
- operation
short-description: >
  A CLI tool that helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters. *NOTE&#58; Officially supports AWS only, with GCE and VMware vSphere in alpha*.
long-description: |
  `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.
[docs][glossary] Add page that lists all standardized k8s terms (#5657) * Add comprehensive glossary page Additional Authors: * Andrew Chen <chenopis@users.noreply.github.com> * Steve Perry <steveperry-53@users.noreply.github.com> * incorporate Tim's feedback * address zach's comments * address more comments * add additional crosslinking * Add platform developer, tweak formatting for disambiguation cases or multiparagraph definitions. 2017-10-12 23:12:38 +00:00			`id: kops`
			`name: Kops`
Fix/re-introduce custom Jekyll tags for better glossary integration (#6163) 2017-11-06 21:36:24 +00:00			`full-link: /docs/getting-started-guides/kops/`
[docs][glossary] Add page that lists all standardized k8s terms (#5657) * Add comprehensive glossary page Additional Authors: * Andrew Chen <chenopis@users.noreply.github.com> * Steve Perry <steveperry-53@users.noreply.github.com> * incorporate Tim's feedback * address zach's comments * address more comments * add additional crosslinking * Add platform developer, tweak formatting for disambiguation cases or multiparagraph definitions. 2017-10-12 23:12:38 +00:00			`tags:`
			`- tool`
			`- operation`
Fix/re-introduce custom Jekyll tags for better glossary integration (#6163) 2017-11-06 21:36:24 +00:00			`short-description: >`
[docs][glossary] Add page that lists all standardized k8s terms (#5657) * Add comprehensive glossary page Additional Authors: * Andrew Chen <chenopis@users.noreply.github.com> * Steve Perry <steveperry-53@users.noreply.github.com> * incorporate Tim's feedback * address zach's comments * address more comments * add additional crosslinking * Add platform developer, tweak formatting for disambiguation cases or multiparagraph definitions. 2017-10-12 23:12:38 +00:00			`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.`
			`long-description: \|`
			`kops` provisions your cluster with:

			`* Fully automated installation`
			`* DNS-based cluster identification`
			`* Self-healing: 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`

Fix/re-introduce custom Jekyll tags for better glossary integration (#6163) 2017-11-06 21:36:24 +00:00			You can also build your own cluster using {% glossary_tooltip term_id="kubeadm" %} as a building block. `kops` builds on the kubeadm work.