Lightning Talk: Scaling Kubernetes Global Balancer with Crossplane - Yury Tsarev, Absa Group
summary
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 composite resource definitions (XRDs) and provider-helm wrap the k8gb Helm chart so operators only supply five parameters, credentials propagate as secrets via custom templates, and Argo/Flux GitOps applies tiny XRC YAMLs. Result: repetitive Helm templating disappears, deployments instantiate across regions (eust1, Africa) and reach Ready state automatically.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:15Crossplane setup
- 2:08What is kgb
- 3:26Deployment challenges
- 3:48Repetitive helm configuration
- 5:02GitHub
- 5:55Demo
- 9:35Conclusion
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