In a perfect world, resources are infinite and readily available. But as we all know, things in the real world are never quite so simple. The struggle for resources is much the same in the world of computer programs, where CPU cycles, memory and storage space, or network bandwidth can easily become scarcities even when using the latest generation of devices and technology. Time-sharing, virtual memory and paging, logical volumes… These techniques are used by most operating systems today without the average user or software developer having to think about them, working hard to make the limitations of hardware disappear.

Over the last few months we’ve been working on implementing a new internal Pipeline framework for managing integrated cluster services. While most of those services had already been supported as part of our cluster create flow, now they have been separated from that flow and have been componentized in Banzai Cloud Platform 2.0. This was done for two reasons: we wanted to give users the flexibility to install and uninstall these services at any time during a cluster’s lifecycle, and we wanted them to be able to do so on any Kubernetes cluster, even ones that were not created by Pipeline (note, with 2.