Towards Something Better Than CRDs In a Post-Operator World
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 · on Thursday, 2022-10-27· at 11:55· Portside Ballroom (Room 260)·
summary
Argues that CRDs can become first-class, provider-hosted APIs and demonstrates a working prototype: QBind plus a small cluster-side connector sinks secrets to link consumer clusters to a provider backend. Uses an example backend and a MongoDB Community Operator wired via Crossplane composition to template the seven support objects away, so no operator runs in the consumer cluster. Demo provisions a non‑HA MongoDB, syncs a single secret and service, and shows status heartbeats; it works end to end.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46SaaS problems in Kubernetes
- 3:10Native service API in Kubernetes
- 6:00API bindings and exports
- 10:14Permission claims explained
- 10:54Introducing Q bind
- 14:27MongoDB with Q bind
- 21:34Role of kcp
- 23:00Demo: T-shirt service binding
- 24:05Q&A
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