Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes

The cloud provider interface

Kubernetes has seen a lot of success with cloud platforms, such as Google's GKE, Microsoft's AKS, Amazon's EKS, Alibaba's AliCloud, IBM's cloud Kubernetes service, DigitalOcean's Kubernetes service, VMware's Cloud PKS, and Oracle's container engine for Kubernetes.

In the early days, integrating Kubernetes into a cloud platform required a lot of effort and involved customizing multiple Kubernetes control plane components, such as the API server, the kubelet, and the controller manager.

To make things easier on cloud platform providers, Kubernetes introduced the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM). The CCM abstracts away, through a set of stable interfaces, all the parts that a cloud provider needs to implement. ...