Keynote: Crossplane at the Crossroads - Bassam Tabbara, Founder & CEO, Upbound
summary
Argues that Crossplane extends Kubernetes with controllers to manage cloud services (databases, caches, networking) via a strict Crossplane Resource Model (XRM) and Composition APIs, with providers generated from SDKs and Terraform and native vendor providers for AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud. Announces a two‑level CNCF conformance program for distributions and providers, says many organizations are replacing IaC and running Crossplane in production, and that incubation status and commercial products are underway.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:56Kubernetes Operating Model
- 7:26Crossplane Resource Model
- 9:27Conformance Program
- 10:15Adoption
- 10:42CNCF
- 10:57Upbound
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