Kubernetes-Powered Platform Engineering: From IaC To API-Driven Infrastructure
Talkat Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 · on Monday, 2025-11-10· at 14:05· Building B | Level 5 | Thomas Murphy Ballroom 2-3·
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Claim: a Kubernetes-native primitive (Kro + ArgoCD + ACK) lets teams declare infrastructure and apps as prescriptive resources using a Resource Graph Definition (RGD) so a single controller orders, validates and reconciles everything. Demo shows automated creation of S3 buckets, service accounts, deployments and ingresses, with static type checking and topology-driven ordering; one live demo hiccups but a second instance succeeds, proving the primitive can replace brittle Terraform/CDK fragments for large-scale GitOps.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Kubernetes platform engineering intro
- 5:39Abstraction vs underlying complexity
- 9:27Microservices platform primitives
- 13:41Cube Resource Orchestrator
- 18:46Demo: Crow in action
- 22:20Closing and adoption steps
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