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Nexus Kubernetes cluster overview

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This article introduces you to Nexus Kubernetes cluster.

What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is a rapidly evolving platform that manages container-based applications and their associated networking and storage components. Kubernetes focuses on the application workloads, not the underlying infrastructure components. It provides a declarative approach to deployments, backed by a robust set of APIs for management operations. See What is Kubernetes to learn about Kubernetes.

Nexus Kubernetes cluster

Nexus Kubernetes cluster (NKS) is an Operator Nexus version of Kubernetes for on-premises use. It is optimized to automate creation of containers to run tenant network function workloads.

Like any Kubernetes cluster, Nexus Kubernetes cluster has two components:

• Control plane: provides core Kubernetes services and orchestration of application workloads.

• Nodes: There are two difference node pools in Nexus Kubernetes Clusters - System node pools and user node pools. System node pools host critical system pods. User node pools host application pods. However, application pods can be scheduled on system node pools if user wants only one pool in their cluster. Every Nexus Kubernetes Cluster must contain at least one system node pool with at least one node.

Failure domain

Operator Nexus ensures that the Nexus Kubernetes Cluster VMs are distributed across nodes and failure domains (physical racks). This distribution is done in a way that improves the resilience and availability of the cluster. Operator Nexus uses Kubernetes affinity rules to schedule clusters in specific zones. This ensures that VMs aren't placed on the same node or in the same failure domain, improving the cluster's fault tolerance. The utilization of the failure domains is especially advantageous when operators have diverse performance requirements for racks. Or when they aim to guarantee that certain workloads remain isolated to specific racks.

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