Kubernetes Scalability: Federation & Cluster API - Katie Gamanji, Condé Nast International

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Conde Nast builds a centralized, globally distributed Kubernetes platform spanning nine clusters and five regions, having migrated two thirds of its estate and serving ~250 million backend page views monthly. Prototype work uses Federation v2 as an application-level control plane (not cluster management) with placement and overrides to push different replica counts and image tags to member clusters — demoed federated namespaces and deployments. Cluster lifecycle work uses Cluster API v1alpha2 with management-cluster controllers and machine/machineSet/machineDeployment resources to provision AWS clusters (demo showed machines pending); Cluster API remains experimental but cloud‑agnostic.

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2. 5:52Federation v2
3. 12:00Federation 2
4. 19:08Cluster API - CRDS

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