Kubernetes supports HA masters now: https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/high-availability https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/high-availability Note that even if you

Kubernetes supports HA masters now: https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/high-availability https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/high-availability Note that even if you don't have HA, Kubernetes being a SPOF isn't necessarily critical. Barring some kind of catastropic, cascading fault that affects multiple nodes and requires rescheduling pods to new nodes, a master going down doesn't actually affect what's currently running. Autoscaling and cronjobs won't work, clients using the API will fail, and failed pods won't be replicated, but if the cluster is otherwise fine, pods will just continue running as before. Ny analogy, it's a bit like turning off the engines during spaceflight. You will continue to coast at the same speed, but you can't change course.