Interview Questions/Technical Deep Dive/Designing a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Strategy
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Designing a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Strategy

KubernetesCloud ArchitectureScalability
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Interview Question

Describe how you would design a Kubernetes architecture for multi-region high availability and low latency.

Key Points to Cover
  • Differentiate between active-active vs active-passive cluster strategies
  • Use global load balancing with failover routing policies
  • Leverage multi-cluster ingress controllers for routing
  • Synchronize secrets and configs securely across clusters
  • Implement cross-cluster service discovery and monitoring
Evaluation Rubric
Ensures regional high availability30% weight
Minimizes latency with optimal routing30% weight
Handles cross-cluster configs/secrets safely20% weight
Implements global observability20% weight
Hints
  • 💡Think DNS failover, cluster federation, and external-dns.
Potential Follow-up Questions
  • How do you handle regional failovers?
  • Which monitoring stack would you choose?
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