Sponsored Keynote: Recursive Kubernetes: Cluster API and Clusters as Cattle

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Cluster lifecycle tooling brings declarative APIs to creating and managing Kubernetes clusters using Cluster API v1alpha1 and CRDs that model Cluster, Machine, MachineSet, MachineDeployment. It wires Machine objects to provider controllers that call cloud APIs to instantiate VMs, and it layers on kubeadm for bootstrapping. Two boot paths exist: management cluster vs self-hosted (pivoting from minikube). Project is early but working in basic scenarios, already adopted by community installers and driving standardization.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:28CubeUp
3. 3:06Community
4. 3:40Cluster APIs
5. 5:54Outro

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