kcp is a Kubernetes-like control plane focusing on:
- A control plane for many independent, isolated “clusters” known as workspaces
- Enabling API service providers to offer APIs centrally using multi-tenant operators
- Easy API consumption for users in their workspaces
kcp can be a building block for SaaS service providers who need a massively multi-tenant platform to offer services to a large number of fully isolated tenants using Kubernetes-native APIs. The goal is to be useful to cloud providers as well as enterprise IT departments offering APIs within their company.
NB: In May 2023, the kcp project was restructured and components related to workload scheduling (e.g. the syncer) and the transparent multi cluster (tmc) code were removed due to lack of interest/maintainers. Please refer to the main-pre-tmc-removal branch if you are interested in the related code.
Please visit docs.kcp.io/kcp for our documentation.
We ❤️ our contributors! If you're interested in helping us out, please check out contributing to kcp.
There are several ways to communicate with us:
- The
#kcp-devchannel in the Kubernetes Slack workspace - Our mailing lists:
- Subscribe to the community calendar for community meetings and events
- The kcp-dev mailing list is subscribed to this calendar
- See recordings of past community meetings on YouTube
- See upcoming and past community meeting agendas and notes
- Browse the shared Google Drive to share design docs, notes, etc.
- Members of the kcp-dev mailing list can view this drive
- KubeCon EU 2021: Kubernetes as the Hybrid Cloud Control Plane Keynote - Clayton Coleman (video)
- OpenShift Commons: Kubernetes as the Control Plane for the Hybrid Cloud - Clayton Coleman (video)
- TGI Kubernetes 157: Exploring kcp: apiserver without Kubernetes
- K8s SIG Architecture meeting discussing kcp - June 29, 2021
- Let's Learn kcp - A minimal Kubernetes API server with Saiyam Pathak - July 7, 2021