Failure domain platform support and configuration

Review failure domain support for your cloud provider to determine how to configure high availability for your control plane.

Table 23. Failure domain support matrix
Cloud provider Support for failure domains Provider nomenclature

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

X

Availability Zone (AZ)

Google Cloud

X

zone

Microsoft Azure

X

Azure availability zone

Nutanix

X

failure domain

Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP)

X

OpenStack Nova availability zones and OpenStack Cinder availability zones

VMware vSphere

X

failure domain mapped to a vSphere Zone [1]

  1. For more information, see "Regions and zones for a VMware vCenter".

The failure domain configuration in the control plane machine set custom resource (CR) is platform-specific. For more information about failure domain parameters in the CR, see the sample failure domain configuration for your provider.