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Overview

Introduction

Cluster federation is a multi-cloud container orchestration capability provided by Karmada. Cluster federation aims to manage multi-cluster applications in cross-cloud and cross-region scenarios, with features such as unified multi-cluster management, application deployment, service discovery, auto scaling, and failover.

Figure 1 Cluster federation architecture

Constraints

Only Huawei Cloud accounts or users with the UCS FullAccess permission can enable or disable cluster federation.

Usage

Figure 2 shows how to use cluster federation.

Figure 2 Process of using cluster federation

Cluster federation is bound to fleets. To use cluster federation for multi-cluster management, perform the following operations:

Connect the cluster to be managed to UCS and add it to a fleet.
Enable cluster federation for the fleet and use kubectl to connect the cluster to a federation.
(Optional) To use the latest functions, upgrade the federation to its latest version.

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