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Kops kops 2018-04-12 /docs/getting-started-guides/kops/ A CLI tool that helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters.
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A CLI tool that helps you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes clusters.

{{< note >}} kops has general availability support only for AWS. Support for using kops with GCE and VMware vSphere are in alpha. {{< /note >}}

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 to 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.