Interconnected Kubernetes Clusters for AI Workload Management

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To manage AI workloads with interconnected Kubernetes clusters, we will create multiple Kubernetes clusters in different regions and configure networking between them to enable secure and efficient cross-cluster communication. This setup can be ideal for scenarios where you need to segregate workloads geographically, ensure high availability, or have workloads that need to communicate across clusters for tasks like distributed training of machine learning models.

For this demonstration, we will use Pulumi to provision two Kubernetes clusters: one on AWS using Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) and one on Google Cloud using GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine). We will then establish networking between these clusters.

Pulumi provides a high-level `eks` package that simplifies creating EKS clusters and a `gcp` package for managing resources on Google Cloud.

Here's how you can set up interconnected Kubernetes clusters for AI workload management using Pulumi in Python:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws
import pulumi_gcp as gcp
import pulumi_eks as eks

# Define the configurations for AWS and GCP regions
aws_region = 'us-west-2'
gcp_region = 'us-central1'

# Set up the AWS provider configuration
aws_provider = aws.Provider('aws-provider', region=aws_region)

# Create the EKS cluster in AWS
eks_cluster = eks.Cluster('eks-cluster',
    vpc_id=aws_vpc.id,
    private_subnet_ids=aws_private_subnets.ids,
    instance_type='t2.medium',
    desired_capacity=2,
    min_size=1,
    max_size=3,
    provider_credential_opts=eks.KubeconfigOptionsArgs(args = ["--region", aws_region]),
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=aws_provider))

# Set up the GCP provider configuration
gcp_provider = gcp.Provider('gcp-provider', region=gcp_region)

# Create the GKE cluster in GCP
gke_cluster = gcp.container.Cluster('gke-cluster',
    location=gcp_region,
    initial_node_count=2,
    min_master_version='latest',
    node_config={
        'machineType': 'n1-standard-1',
        'oauthScopes': [
            'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute',
            'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/devstorage.read_only',
            'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/logging.write',
            'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/monitoring'
        ],
    },
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(provider=gcp_provider))

# Export the kubeconfig of both clusters which can be used to manage the clusters with kubectl
pulumi.export("eks-kubeconfig", eks_cluster.kubeconfig)
pulumi.export("gke-kubeconfig", pulumi.Output.secret(gke_cluster.master_auth.apply(lambda auth: gcp.container.get_cluster_kubeconfig(cluster_name=gke_cluster.name, location=gcp_region, master_auth=auth))))

# The networking setup for inter-cluster communication would typically involve setting up VPC peering, VPNs, or a managed network service to connect the Kubernetes clusters securely.
# This is a platform-specific setup that involves networking resources and is beyond the scope of Pulumi's Kubernetes provisioning.
```

In the code above:
- We define two providers, one for AWS and one for GCP, configuring them with the respective regions.
- The `eks.Cluster` class is used to provision an EKS cluster. We specify the VPC and subnet IDs where the cluster should be created along with the desired instance type and scaling configurations.
- The `gcp.container.Cluster` class is used to create a GKE cluster with a specified machine type and OAuth scopes required for the various GCP services.
- Finally, we export the kubeconfig for both clusters, which allows us to manage the clusters with `kubectl` outside of this Pulumi program.

Please note that the actual interconnection setup will depend on how you plan to structure networking between the clusters—be it through VPC peering, establishing a VPN connection, or using other cloud services for network connectivity. These resources will have to be managed in addition to the Kubernetes clusters to provide you with a complete interconnected setup.

This example demonstrates the basic provisioning of Kubernetes clusters across two cloud providers, giving you a foundation to customize and extend for your specific AI workload management use case.