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When product teams build software, they think about user personas, and Kubernetes is no different. There are three key user personas for Kubernetes: the one who runs containers (developers), the one who manages the cluster (operators) and the one who creates bespoke tooling (platform engineers). While the first two personas have a lot of resources and support, the third often appears to be a dark art that is only possible by the most courageous and advanced Kubernetes users.
What if we were to tell you the only secret to unleash this power is a single schema and a single function? Yes, even the power of graduated CNCF projects such as ArgoCD and CertManager can boil down that simple description. This talk will take a magnifying glass to how Kubernetes CRDs and controllers work so that you can build confidence in both using, and hopefully building, custom services on top of Kubernetes.
Sébastien Blanc, Staff Developer Advocate at Aiven, is a Passion-Driven-Developer with one primary goal : share his passion by giving talks that are pragmatic, fun and focused on live coding.
Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across... Read More →
