production

Running Cluster API (CAPI) in production introduces a fundamental architectural shift: the management cluster becomes a mission-critical infrastructure control plane. In single-cluster environments, an operational failure in the control plane affects only the workloads running within that boundary. With Cluster API, a failure in the management cluster decouples your ability to mutate, heal, scale, or secure the entire fleet of downstream workload clusters. While running workload clusters continue executing application pods when the management plane is offline, all lifecycle operations freeze:...