k0smotron as Cluster API provider

k0smotron can act as a Cluster API provider for both control planes and for Machine bootstrapping.

Note: Cluster API providers in k0smotron are very experimental still. We're iterating fast on these but we'd definitely value your feedback how it behaves with various infrastructure providers.

Control Plane provider

When k0smotron acts as a control plane provider it will create and manage the cluster control plane within the management cluster, just as in the standalone case.

Bootstrap provider

k0smotron can also act as a bootstrap provider for worker nodes you want to manage via Cluster API. When k0smotron detects a new node that needs to be added to the cluster it will automatically create a new join token needed for the node and creates the provisioning cloud-init script for the node. Once Cluster API controllers sees the node initialization script in place (in a secret) the infrastructure provider will create the needed resources (usually VMs in cloud provider infrastructure) with the k0smotron created cloud-init script.