The building blocks of federation

Federation makes it easy to manage resources across clusters by providing two distinct types of building blocks. The first is resources and the second is service discovery:

  • Resource synchronization across clusters: Federation is the glue that allows you to keep track of the many resources needed to run sets of applications. When you're running a lot of applications, with many resources and object types, across many clusters, federation is key to keeping your clusters organized and managed well. You may find yourself needing to keep an application deployment running in multiple clusters with a single pane of glass view.
  • Multi-cluster service discovery: There are a number of resources that share well between ...

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