Cluster Management Architecture

The Container Management Service (Cloud ZCP) enables the management of multiple Data Plane Clusters by allowing cluster registration and the installation of monitoring agents such as Prometheus, Fluent Bit, and FluentD. These agents track cluster health and centrally collect metrics and logs from all deployed workloads.

In the Control Plane Cluster, the Multi-Cluster Management (MCM) service consists of:

• mcm-backend: Handles cluster management requests from system administrators.
• MongoDB: Stores metadata for the Data Plane Cluster.

Cluster registration and add-on installation requests from administrators are sent through the Container Management Service console to the mcm-backend, which then interacts with the Data Plane Cluster’s API server to retrieve cluster status and manage agent installations.