Feature Request: Kubernetes-native runtime support / API backend

[dj346]

Hi, thanks for all the work on Calagopus Wings.

I wanted to ask whether there are any plans to support a Kubernetes-native runtime/API backend for Wings, instead of relying only on the Docker-compatible API/socket model.

At the moment, the ecosystem seems to still revolve around Docker-compatible container management. Calagopus Wings currently documents configuration around a Docker-compatible socket, and that seems to match the general direction taken by Pterodactyl Wings and other forks as well.

The reason I’m asking is that Kubernetes support has been requested in adjacent projects for a while:

• Pterodactyl had a Kubernetes support request, but it was closed as not planned.
• Pelican’s FAQ says Podman / Kubernetes support is planned in the future.
• Pelican also has community discussions around Kubernetes support and HA / cluster-style deployments:
  • Discussion #933
  • Discussion #10

A Kubernetes-native integration could be useful for setups that want things like:

• scheduling workloads across a cluster
• native resource limits/visibility
• standard Kubernetes logging/metrics
• better HA/failover options
• avoiding Docker-in-Docker or privileged sidecar workarounds

I’m not necessarily asking for this immediately, but I wanted to know whether this is:

1. something already being considered,
2. something that is explicitly out of scope, or
3. something that could be supported through an abstraction layer in the future.

Even a high-level answer on roadmap or feasibility would be helpful.

Thanks again.

[0x7d8]

Me personally, will likely not implement K8s support for wings, it kind of fights against the architecture and wouldnt make much sense for wings, since its meant as an alternative to k8s if you look at it another way, however, what will happen soon is I will unify the logic for container handling into a trait so its easy to insert custom executors, which will be something required for me to add windows support anyway.

[dj346]

Ah, that’s too bad. I’ve been looking for something like this with Kubernetes support for years. There was some work done on it https://github.com/kubectyl/kuber but the project got archived.

Thanks for the clarification.