[Question] Comparison with kubefed about fleet

[ibuildthecloud]

It's just a different paradigm but in the end accomplishes the same. At this point I wouldn't say one is particularly better than the other. Kubefed takes the approach of managing individual k8s resources using kubectl against a "virtual namespace." It then replicates that down to a bunch of clusters. Fleet is more oriented towards a paradigm of deploying "bundles" or packages to a bunch of clusters. The Fleet model was based off of how I saw users trying to manage a lot of clusters and the ideas of just managing a bunch of packages across clusters, the same way you would with rpms and linux servers seemed to make sense.

In the end I think the fleet model is easier for people to reason about, but time will tell.

[pingenglj]

Much appreciated. I hope to find some time to experiment with Fleet and evaluate our kubefed setup.

[gyliu513]

One more comment is fleet is PULL model while kubefed is PUSH model, but I can see kubefed also have plan to enable PULL model as well at https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kubefed/blob/master/docs/keps/20200619-kubefed-pull-reconciliation.md

[kkaempf]

Answered