Multi-Region Kubernetes#
Running Kubernetes in a single region is a single point of failure at the infrastructure level. Region outages are rare but real – AWS us-east-1 has gone down multiple times, taking entire companies offline. Multi-region Kubernetes addresses this, but it introduces complexity in networking, state management, and deployment coordination that you must handle deliberately.
Independent Clusters with Shared GitOps#
The simplest multi-region pattern: run completely independent clusters in each region, deploy the same applications to all of them using GitOps, and route traffic with DNS or a global load balancer.