Federating services in Kubernetes, Openshift and the hybrid cloud

Federating services in Kubernetes, Openshift and the hybrid cloud

As businesses gain experience of using Openshift and Kubernetes in hybrid cloud environments, questions start being raised about securely federating services between clusters, between clouds, and on premises. In fact, questions are equally asked about calling services securely outside of the Kubernetes clusters as well. This could be talking to a database that will never migrate, it could be talking to a service that is on a journey to cloud but isn’t there yet.

At Red Hat, we have 3 approaches to service federation and in this talk we will take a brief look at each one of them and discuss which we might choose to use for different use cases. We will also explore when combinations of the approaches will provide a better solution.