Ansible automatically loads **all**`.yml` files from `group_vars/<group_name>/` for hosts in that group. Since all our hosts are in the `all` group, these variables are available everywhere.
## Pluggable Components
The platform supports pluggable implementations for several components:
### Kubernetes Distribution (`k8s_distribution`)
-**kind** (default): Deploy Kind cluster
-**existing**: Use existing cluster (skip provisioning)