How do people manage their Kubernetes clusters?

What’s this issue all about?

• More general research about Kubernetes management.

Who is the target user of the feature?

• Cloud Platform Operations Engineer
• DevOps Engineer
• System Engineer

What questions are you trying to answer?

Core questions

• How do people manage their Kubernetes clusters?
  • What clusters do they manage and what are the services (e.g. database) related to them?
  • What tasks connected to cluster management do they accomplish?
  • What tools do they use and what processed do they follow when managing clusters?
  • How do they gain knowledge about the cluster management?

Additional questions

• What information would be useful for the users when they review a cluster dashboard or listing. Same question for a cluster details page.
  • Why do they go to the list of clusters? What job are they trying to do?
  • In a dashboard or list of clusters, what information are users interested in viewing in regards to each cluster?
  • What information do they expect to see for all their clusters?
  • Where do they expect to view the cluster resources usage? (for a single cluster)
  • Where do they expect to view the cluster health metrics?(for a single cluster)

What hypotheses and/or assumptions do you have?

What decisions will you make based on the research findings?

What's the latest milestone that the research will still be useful to you?