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Thursday, March 21 • 15:25 - 16:00
Why Kubernetes Is Inappropriate for Platforms, and How to Make It Better. - Stefan Schimanski, Upbound; Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI; Sebastian Scheele, Kubermatic

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The ecosystem is building platforms on Kubernetes now, starting with a hub cluster and then sticking tools for Gitops, for application descriptions and for infrastructure management together, with the goal to create custom APIs for the platform consumers. This works, but hits limits of Kube as a framework quickly. Can we do better? Oh yes, we can! This talk is about extending Kube, adapting its architecture to be a better fit for a world where instead of container orchestration two new personas are at the center: (a) the service & API provider (b) the self-service consumer, often developers or application owners. We focus on 3 dimensions to enable Kube to serve platform engineering better: - from kcp we take the workspace hiararchy as a vastly better multi-tenancy primitive. - cross-workspace API exports and bindings tailor-made for the service provider and consumer personas. - cluster mounting that integrates Kube clusters for a unified user interface and identity management.
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Stefan Schimanski

Senior Principal Engineer, Upbound
Stefan is a Senior Principal Engineer at Upbound working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, with a focus on API machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2nd time GoogleSummer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves to teach and help people to learn. Before... Read More →
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Sebastian Scheele

Kubermatic - CEO, KUbermatic
Sebastian Scheele is CEO and co-founder of Kubermatic, one of the leading committers to Kubernetes, focused on developing open core software solutions for automating Kubernetes operations, at scale. Sebastian, a developer himself, has his finger on the pulse of where the Kubernetes... Read More →
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MJ

Staff engineer, Cast AI
With 10+ years in engineering, tech has been my passion from the start. Graduating in computer networks, I thrive on Go, Kubernetes, and an OpenSource approach. As an SRE practitioner, it's all about owning what you touch. No cloud preference, just adaptability. My motto? "Learn daily... Read More →

KubeCon 2024 Paris Why Kubernetes Is Inappropriate for Platforms and How to Make It Better pdf
Thursday March 21, 2024 15:25 - 16:00 CET
Pavilion 7 | Level 7.1 | Room A
  Platform Engineering