Microsoft will install updates on the VMs but rebooting and activating these updates is your responsibility. KubeSphere is developed to address multi-cluster and multi-cloud management challenges, including the scenarios mentioned above. This works fine within a single Kubernetes cluster and can allow for instance to deploy Cassandra in a mono-region multi-AZ topology. Background. GitHub - mspnp/aks-baseline-multi-region: This is the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Baseline for Multi-Region Deployment reference implementation as produced by the Microsoft Azure Architecture Center. For the example in this post, I followed the instructions on the K8ssandra Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) installation docs to create a GKE cluster in the us-west4 region. Drain all pods on the node: $ oc adm drain