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---
title: kOps (Kubernetes Operations)
id: kops
date: 2018-04-12
full_link: /docs/setup/production-environment/kops/
short_description: >
kOps will not only help you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes cluster, but it will also provision the necessary cloud infrastructure.
aka:
tags:
- tool
- operation
---
`kOps` will not only help you create, destroy, upgrade and maintain production-grade, highly available, Kubernetes cluster, but it will also provision the necessary cloud infrastructure.
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AWS (Amazon Web Services) is currently officially supported, with DigitalOcean, GCE and OpenStack in beta support, and Azure in alpha.
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`kOps` is an automated provisioning system:
* Fully automated installation
* Uses DNS to identify clusters
* Self-healing: everything runs in Auto-Scaling Groups
* Multiple OS support (Amazon Linux, Debian, Flatcar, RHEL, Rocky and Ubuntu)
* High-Availability support
* Can directly provision, or generate terraform manifests