2024/06/28 by Lincoln Bryant, R. W. Gardner, Bryant, Lincoln +7
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Business Strategy and Innovation #Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) #Distributed #Distributed systems and fault tolerance #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Parallel #University-Industry-Government Innovation Models #and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.01620
openalex publication_date 2024/06/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Over the last decade, the Kubernetes container orchestration platform has become essential to many scientific workflows. Despite its popularity, deploying a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on-premises can be challenging for system administrators. Many of the proprietary integrations that application developers take for granted in commercial cloud environments must be replaced with alternatives when deployed locally. This article will compare three popular deployment strategies for sites deploying Kubernetes on-premise: Kubeadm with Kubespray, OpenShift / OKD and Rancher via K3S/RKE2.