Kubernetes - The Universal Control Plane - Nabarun Pal, VMware

Don't miss out! Join us at our next Flagship Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris from March 19-22, 2024. Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io Kubernetes - The Universal Control Plane - Nabarun Pal, VMware While Kubernetes has become a de facto standard, installing, managing and updating k8s itself is no simple task. To avoid these challenges, it is imperative that organizations start treating their k8s clusters like Cattle – spinning them up and down on demand. This talk will dive deeper into how to build an extensible, unified control plane (UCP) for multi-cluster management using OSS tools available in the ecosystem like kcp, Crossplane and the combination of both! The hub-and-spoke architecture will also be demonstrated where a “hub” k8s cluster is used to push down custom resources to physical clusters (spikes). This enables: - UCP for many independent clusters - API service providers to offer APIs centrally - Flexible scheduling of workloads to create physical clusters - Lock-in to any specific cloud APIs We will also cover improvements to upstream kube-apiserver that enable building the UCP, including the ability to define core k8s resources as CRDs.