[colemickens]

See also: SAP's Gardener. Their website reminds me of a spam landing page more than a valuable, robust project, so I'll link an official Kubernetes blog post about it: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/05/17/gardener/

EDIT: per the replies, it does look like a fairly different focus, my apologies, just got excited when I saw the virtualized control plane. (To save you reading the blog, Gardener launches a control plane in an existing cluster to manage workloads on a different, dedicated set of worker nodes.) It will be fun to think about k3v and multi-tenancy.

[p932]

Gardener project focus is orchestration of multiple Kubernetes clusters on IaaS cloud providers, whereas k3v focus on running a dedicated control plane over an existing Kubernetes cluster. Some overlaps but different project's goals.

[cwyers]

Yeah, Gardener looks like it's meant to address one tenant on multiple k8s clusters, and k3v looks like it's meant to address multitenancy in a single k8s cluster.