Kubernetes-native declarative infrastructure for IONOS Cloud.

The Cluster API Provider IONOS Cloud makes declarative provisioning of multiple Kubernetes clusters through Cluster API on IONOS Cloud infrastructure possible.

Cluster API is a Kubernetes sub-project focused on providing declarative APIs and tooling to simplify provisioning, upgrading, and operating multiple Kubernetes clusters.

Started by the Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Cluster Lifecycle, the Cluster API project uses Kubernetes-style APIs and patterns to automate cluster lifecycle management for platform operators. The supporting infrastructure, like virtual machines, networks, load balancers, and VPCs, as well as the Kubernetes cluster configuration are all defined in the same way that application developers operate deploying and managing their workloads. This enables consistent and repeatable cluster deployments across a wide variety of infrastructure environments.

Check out the Cluster API Quick Start to create your first Kubernetes cluster.

The IONOS Cloud provider is able to install and manage the versions of Kubernetes supported by the Cluster API (CAPI) project.

For more information on Kubernetes version support, see the Cluster API book.

Documentation can be found in the /docs directory, and the index is here.

Are you interested in contributing to cluster-api-provider-ionoscloud? We, the maintainers and the community, would love your suggestions, contributions, and help! Also, the maintainers can be contacted at any time to learn more about how to get involved.

To set up for your environment, check out the development guide.

In the interest of getting more new people involved, we tag issues with good first issue. These are typically issues that have smaller scope but are good ways to start to get acquainted with the codebase.

We also encourage ALL active community participants to act as if they are maintainers, even if you don't have "official" write permissions. This is a community effort, we are here to serve the Kubernetes community. If you have an active interest and you want to get involved, you have real power! Don't assume that the only people who can get things done around here are the "maintainers".