Virtual K8s: Application Fleet Management at Scale

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Virtual k8s is a Kubernetes-compatible control plane that makes a digital twin for each site and replicates Kubernetes objects across clusters using k8s API–compatible endpoints, CRDs, and annotations to control scope and replication. It targets large edge fleets (thousands of sites) and the team reports operating over 1,000 devices; the demo shows Helm charts and namespaces propagated to global sites with live updates and rollbacks working end-to-end.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:02Managing apps across locations
3. 3:56K8s orchestration abstraction
4. 5:45Provisioning edge clusters
5. 8:32Virtual K8s solution
6. 11:38Topology and site demo
7. 13:27Deploying multi-zone apps
8. 17:53Virtual cluster UI
9. 21:53Dynamic provisioning
10. 23:48App networking demo
11. 24:09Q&A

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