• Create, destroy, upgrade
• And maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes cluster
• Also provision the necessary cloud infrastructure.

It is used for configuration, but not replace Kubectl

Example: Create Orchestration using Kops in AWS

kops create cluster --name=kubevpro.groophy.in --state=s3://bucket-name 
--zones=ap-south-1a,ap-south-1b  --node-count=2 --node-size=t3.small --master-size=t3.medium  --dns-zone=<dns-domain> --node-volume-size=8 --master-volume-size=12

Creates a [configuration] for setting up cluster. It uses AWS CLI, to do the following:

• Domain (example): kubevpro.groophy.in
• Use S3 for states (etcd)
• Create 1 master node (12 GB - t3.medium) & 2 worker nodes (8 GB - t3.small)

kops update cluster --name kubevpro.groophy.in --state=s3://vprofile-kop-states --yes --admin

Runs the cluster as admin (AWS Admin) and use S3 as etcd state.

kops delete cluster --name kubevpro.groophy.in --state=s3://vprofile-kop-states --yes --admin

Delete the cluster created