Simplified Experience Of Building Cluster API Provider In Multitenant Cloud

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Builds a Cluster API infrastructure provider for VMware Cloud Director (vcd), using kubebuilder scaffolding and clusterctl to install components, CSI/CPI/CNI for workload readiness, and admission webhooks plus conversion webhooks for multi-version support. Implements per-tenant namespaces, short-lived refresh tokens and a clusterctl move to make clusters self-managing so each workload can scale and upgrade independently. Notes a critical bug: missing CRD labels break API versioning, and autoscaling works with simple annotations.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Cluster API
2. 1:24Cluster API internals
3. 4:38Infrastructure provider vcd
4. 7:39Cluster API contract
5. 11:15Implementation and setup
6. 14:11Advanced features
7. 18:03Multi-tenant design patterns
8. 22:57Self-service challenges
9. 29:40Self-managing clusters
10. 32:02Kubernetes as a service

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