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Oct 16, 2019 · Cloud Native

How Alibaba Scaled Kubernetes to 10,000 Nodes: Key Optimizations and Lessons

This article details how Alibaba and Ant Financial tackled the performance and stability challenges of running Kubernetes at massive scale, describing their enhancements to etcd, API Server, scheduler, controller failover, load balancing, and other components that enabled a 10k‑node cluster to support the 2019 Tmall 618 promotion.