Tech riderRev. 22 Sept 2026
Cluster API
- 1Runs onWindows, Mac, Linux
- 2CostsNot stated by the maker
- 3Control plane managementcustomer-managed
- 4Supported environmentsAWS, Azure, Azure Stack HCI, CloudStack, DigitalOcean, GCP, IBM Cloud, KubeVirt, Metal3, Nutanix, OCI, OpenStack, Outscale, Proxmox, vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, and other provider environments
- 5Cluster provisioningYes
- 6Multi-cluster managementYes
- 7Upgrade managementYes
6 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: cluster-api.sigs.k8s.io
Overview
Cluster API is ranked #13 of 25 in Kubernetes management platforms on Specifiction. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Compared on Kubernetes management platforms
- Control plane management
- customer-managedcluster-api.sigs.k8s.io
- Supported environments
- AWS, Azure, Azure Stack HCI, CloudStack, DigitalOcean, GCP, IBM Cloud, KubeVirt, Metal3, Nutanix, OCI, OpenStack, Outscale, Proxmox, vSphere, VMware Cloud Director, and other provider environmentscluster-api.sigs.k8s.io
- Cluster provisioning
- Yescluster-api.sigs.k8s.io
- Multi-cluster management
- Yescluster-api.sigs.k8s.io
- Upgrade management
- Yescluster-api.sigs.k8s.io
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