<p>I'm building on-prem kubernetes cluster and we are a windows shop.  If we have AD.com as our corporate AD DNS Server, should we use the same namespace for the kubernetes cluster?</p>

<p>My "hunch" is that I should create a separate domain for the cluster and then setup domain forwarding.  </p>

<p>Ex. </p>

<ul>
<li>AD.com --> Setup conditional forwarding to Cluster.local</li>
<li>Cluster.local --> use default to inherit from host, or setup stub<br>
lookup</li>
</ul>

<p>Any best practices advice?</p>

<p>You probably want to set them up separately. Setting up <code>cluster.local</code> in AD will probably lead to unpredictable results. </p>

<p><code>cluster.local</code> is a domain for Kubernetes to resolve names 'internally' in a cluster.</p>

<p>Hope it helps!</p>
