Production Usage

kube-vip Maturity

The kube-vip project is deployed and used in a number of production environments and is included/bundled with a number of production Kubernetes based platforms. Whilst kube-vip could be thought of as pre-release, it has happily found it's home in places where it runs production workloads. A cursary glance at time of writing this (mid-July 2022) also reveals that downloads combined from Docker Hub and GitHub container registry amount to around 19,000,000 kube-vip container pulls.

Adoption

Below is a small list of places where kube-vip is used:

• Equinix Metal
• VMware Tanzu
• Cluster-API vSphere
• Cluster-API Cloudstack
• Cluster-API Nutanix
• Cluster-API BYOH (Bring your own host)
• Cluster-API IBMCloud
• EKS-Anywhere
• Harvester (from Rancher)

Key Usage

• On-premises environments
• Virtualised platforms
• Bare-metal
• Home-lab
• Edge