Rootconf Mini 2024 (on 22nd & 23rd Nov)

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Nabarun Pal

Nabarun Pal

@palnabarun

Building universe scale control planes the Kubernetes way

Submitted Oct 30, 2024

Kubernetes has solidified its core technology status in the field of infrastructure software. As per CNCF Annual Surveys, 66% of potential/actual consumers were using Kubernetes in production and an additional 18% were evaluating it. End users of Kubernetes are moving towards hybrid cloud architectures for flexibility, security, cost optimizations, scalability and performance. A staggering 43% of respondents of the CNCF Annual Survey are running hybrid cloud architecture. At the same time, managing Kubernetes across multiple cloud providers becomes difficult. To address these challenges posed by multi-cloud and hybrid cloud topologies, solutions which enable organizations to build a Universal Control Plane are the need of the hour.

Benefits of building a Universal Control Plane (including but not limited to):

  • Portability: It is portable enough that it can be deployed anywhere
  • Consistent Interface: Abstracts out the underlying complexities, thereby resulting in no configuration drift
  • Centralized API: Organizations get access to a central API which consolidates management operations
  • Avoiding Vendor Lock-in: Enterprises can avoid the risk of getting locked into a particular vendor
  • Deployment and Disaster Recovery Strategies: Platform Engineers can define strategies right at the core of the infrastructure
  • Upgrades, migrations and rollbacks: Day 2 operations become simpler when done from a central place

This talk will dive deeper into how to build an extensible, universal control plane for multi-cluster management using open source tools available in the ecosystem like Kubernetes, kcp, Crossplane and the combination of these!

The hub-and-spoke architecture will also be demonstrated where a “hub” k8s cluster is used to push down custom resources to physical clusters (spikes).

The primary target audience for this talk is technical architects, principal engineers, and decision-makers at product organizations who are building control planes for their infrastructure and platforms. At the end of this talk, platform engineers and architects will take away how to build a multi-cluster, multi-tenant, HA platform to manage cloud resources.

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