Architecture

Learn the key concepts and architectural components of a DKP cluster

Kubernetes creates the foundation for a DKP cluster. Because of this fundamental relationship, you should be familiar with a few key concepts and terms. The topic in this section gives a brief overview of the native Kubernetes architecture, a simplified view of the DKP architecture - both Essential and Enterprise versions. Also, it shows the operational workflow for a DKP cluster.

The following diagram is an architectural overview to help you visualize the flow of the key components:

Components for the Kubernetes Control Plane

The native Kubernetes cluster consists of components in the cluster’s control plane and worker nodes that run containers and maintain the runtime environment.

DKP supplements the native Kubernetes cluster by including a pre-defined and pre-configured set of applications. Because this pre-defined set of applications provides critical features for managing a Kubernetes cluster in a production environment, the default set is identified as DKP platform applications.

See Platform applications for the full set of DKP platform services.

Related Information

For information on related topics or procedures, see the Kubernetes documentation.

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