Crossplane Community Day Europe 2021
2021-05-04
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as the organisers put it
An event designed to foster collaboration, discussion and knowledge sharing of Crossplane, a CNCF project which extends the Kubernetes API to manage and compose infrastructure form multiple cloud vendors and infrastructure providers.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks - Dan Mangum, Program Committee Member | Dan Mangum | 02m |
Welcome and context for Crossplane Community Day at KubeCon EU 2021 with claims of rapid growth since late 2018, CNCF donation and a stable 1.0 release plus… | ||
| Keynote: Crossplane at the Crossroads - Bassam Tabbara, Founder & CEO, Upbound | Bassam Tabbara | 11m |
Argues that Crossplane extends Kubernetes with controllers to manage cloud services (databases, caches, networking) via a strict Crossplane Resource Model… | ||
| Keynote: Operational Nirvana: The future belongs to the robots - Jay Pipes, Principal Engineer, AWS | Jay Pipes | 12m |
AWS Controllers for Kubernetes acts as a code generator that consumes AWS API models (S3, RDS, IAM) and produces either a Crossplane AWS provider or individual… | ||
| Outgrowing Terraform - Nic Cope, Upbound & Dalorion Johnson, Guidewire | Nic Cope, Dalorion Johnson | 30m |
Guidewire runs about 73,000 lines of HCL across a three-layer Terraform design and hits concrete limits: drift between S3 state and Git, provider/version… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Crossplane and Promises - Steve Cavallo, Cloudcheckr | Steve Cavallo | 05m |
Claims that Crossplane enforces desired-state promises where Terraform and CloudFormation fall short: Terraform produces spot instance unpredictability and can… | ||
| Panel: Bringing The Cloud To Kubernetes - Moderated by: Nic Cope, Upbound | Nic Cope | 40m |
Four cloud projects model provider APIs as Kubernetes resources: ACK, ASO, Config Connector and Crossplane. Teams build controllers and providers (ACK and… | ||
| Constructing Building Blocks for Production Grade Cloud Native Deployments (with Cro... Hasan Türken | Hasan Türken | 23m |
Shows a working pipeline that uses Crossplane compositions to create GCP resources (VPC, GKE cluster, node pools, service accounts, KMS keyring + crypto key… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Notes from Crossplane Newbs - Jeremy Tanner & Gianluca Arbezzano, Equinix | Jeremy Tanner, Gianluca Arbezzano | 10m |
New users spend a week testing Crossplane and report concrete takeaways: it is a Kubernetes add‑on that acts as a cross‑cloud control plane and continuously… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Crossplane - An Extensible Approach in Distributing Workloads - Jason Bonafide, Dell | Jason Bonafide | 10m |
Don’t miss out! Join us at our upcoming event: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 in Los Angeles, CA from October 12-15. Learn more at… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Connecting the (platform) pieces for automated CI/CD - Jan Willies, Accenture | Jan Willies | 11m |
Shows how Crossplane provider and XRM features actually create and manage app platform pieces: a git repository created from Crossplane plus a composition that… | ||
| Cloud-Init with Crossplane - Marques Johansson, Equinix | Marques Johansson | 30m |
Shows a small Crossplane provider that assembles cloud-init from multiple ConfigMaps and Secrets, MIME-multiparting, gzipping and base64-encoding the result… | ||
| How to Build Your Own PaaS from the Cloud Native Landscape - Jared Watts, Upbound | Jared Watts | 21m |
Shows how to assemble a full opinionated PaaS by composing cloud native projects with Crossplane: provider-gcp and provider-helm create a GKE cluster and… | ||
| The How & Why for Building Crossplane Providers - Krish Chowdhary, Red Hat | Krish Chowdhary | 21m |
Explains how Crossplane providers map one-to-one to external APIs using kubebuilder/controller-runtime and CRD generation, and shows bootstrapping from the… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Scaling Kubernetes Global Balancer with Crossplane - Yury Tsarev, Absa Group | Yury Tsarev | 11m |
Absa runs 120+ clusters with a Kubernetes-native global load balancer called k8gb that uses DNS and avoids a control-plane single point of failure. Crossplane… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Self-Service Provisioning with the Crossplane Service Broker- Tobias Brunner, VSHN | Tobias Brunner | 09m |
Crossplane Service Broker translates the Open Service Broker API to Crossplane primitives, maps service offering to composite resource definition, maps plans… | ||
| Panel: Emerging Trends in Cloud Engineering: Platform as product, APIs, self-service & more | Alex Jones, Brian Gracely, Katie Gamanji, Viktor Farcic, Daniel Bryant | 28m |
Predictions center on concrete shifts: teams build Heroku‑like developer platforms that sit atop Kubernetes using CRDs and operators, Crossplane for infra and… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Secure, Least Privilege Cloud Service provisioning with Crossplane - Lewis Marshall | Lewis Marshall | 09m |
Crossplane can use cloud managed, short‑lived credentials instead of stored keys by leveraging injected identity on EKS, but that currently binds one identity… | ||
| Deja Vu: Let's think about security again! - Shripad Nadgowda & Paolo Dettori, IBM | Shripad Nadgowda, Paolo Dettori | 19m |
NSA labels misconfiguration the top cloud vulnerability and Gartner projects 99% of cloud failures blamed to customers by 2025 — argument: shift infra control… | ||
| Lightning Talk: OCI Images for More Than Containers, Jon Johnson, Google | Jon Johnson | 10m |
OCI images serve as immutable packages for arbitrary artifacts rather than only container runtimes, and registries store manifests and blobs addressed by… | ||
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