Doctor Flag: Into the Kubernetes Featureverse with k0rdent and OpenFeature

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Shows a concrete platform: OpenFeature plus k0rdent, Flux, flagd, Cluster API, OpenTelemetry and Grafana combine so feature states are versioned, governed and automatically reconciled across multicluster environments. Developers declare intent in Git, Flux reconciles, k0rdent enforces rollout gates and collects telemetry, flagd updates runtimes in real time. Promised deliverable is an OpenFeature service template contributed to the k0rdent catalog to make this GitOps-friendly feature ops and policy-driven rollout gates repeatable.

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1. 0:00Feature flags and platform engineering
2. 4:37Kubernetes control plane challenge
3. 7:26Feature flags as platform primitives
4. 11:20Multicluster multiverse problem
5. 13:28Introducing k0rdent for multicloud
6. 16:18Feature Ops with OpenFeature & k0rdent
7. 20:15Future of agentic feature operations
8. 23:09Key lessons and conclusion

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