(I also asked the question on SO, and got a NO answer. But before giving up on k18s (since I don’t really want to give up the nice features k18s offers) I’d like to ask the community again just to confirm.) I have a bunch of servers, geographically dispersed, that are used to let users ping an IP t…

Is it a cluster per region an option? There are many things that just use lot of communication over the network (between nodes and control plane and even kube-proxy). A cluster is not really designed to be geographically distributed right now :-(. If having multiple clusters is an option, I think …

Thanks for the quickly reply. There won’t be many servers in each region, but there will be many regions. Not sure if multiple clusters can bring much benefit vs just mange each server manually.

Can you toss the link to the SO question here for reference? Thanks!

here is the link [hgl] Should I use Kubernetes if my servers spread across the global? kubernetes asked by hgl on 02:11PM - 08 Feb 19 UTC

Then I think you shouldn’t use it :frowning: (The same for federation, it might be to immature and not worth the gains) Sorry :frowning:

I’m inclined to agree with @rata . Kubernetes may not work well for your use case. If it is something you want to pursue, check out how Chik-fil-A put a kubernetes cluster in each of their restaurants . It’s a pretty good example of a small cluster at each site.

Thanks guys. Looks like I’m out of luck here. I’ll give multiple-cluster a try if the manual way turns out to be too painful.

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Good luck! Please share your experience if you happen to try it!

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