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If we combine those capabilities with policy management through Kyverno, we can enforce best practices, be more secure, and, above all, enable other teams to be self-sufficient and safe.&nbsp;

Enforcing Kubernetes Policies on Infra and Apps by Combining Kyverno and Crossplane

Crossplane is Kubernetes-native. That means that it can work seamlessly with any other tool designed to work in or interact with Kubernetes. One of the tools that can be used with Crossplane is ytt.&nbsp;

How to Solve Crossplane Compositions Complexity Issue with ytt

Through Kubernetes, we are used to automated drift-detection and reconciliation applied to our applications. That, however, is not common for infrastructure tools. Crossplane is one of the few exceptions.

Automated Drift Detection and Reconciliation for Infrastructure

Crossplane runs inside a Kubernetes cluster. We can use it to manage everything, but what should we use to create that initial cluster? It's "the chicken or the egg" problem.

How to Create a Management Kubernetes Cluster for Crossplane

Wouldn't it be great if every cluster we create is "GitOps-ready"? For something like that to happen, we'd need to create a Kubernetes cluster, install Argo CD, Flux, or Rancher Fleet, configure Namespaces, create projects and apps that monitor specific Git repositories, etc. We can simplify all that through Crossplane Compositions and enable anyone to have GitOps-ready clusters with almost no effort.&nbsp;

Create and Manage GitOps-Ready Kubernetes Clusters with Crossplane

Join @hasheddan for an experimental demo of running Upbound's multi-tenant control plane platform on kcp! Interested in trying out this experience for yourself? Sign up for Upbound's private preview <a href="https://bit.ly/3h7YNIl">https://bit.ly/3h7YNIl</a>

Demo: Scaling Upbound's Multi-Tenant Control Plane Platform on kcp

How to Combine Crossplane with KubeVela?

Applications often need more than containers running in a Kubernetes cluster. They often depend on other services like, for example, database servers.

How to Manage Applications with Databases Using Helm, Crossplane, and Schemahero

How to Apply GitOps to Everything Using Crossplane and Flux

How to Manage Kubernetes Applications Using Crossplane Compositions

How to Package and Distribute Crossplane Compositions as Container Images

How to Use Terrajet Providers With 100% Coverage for AWS, GCP, and Azure

Manage Multi-Cloud Resources With Crossplane - Rise Above The Clouds

Production-ready Kubernetes clusters require not only infrastructure but also third-party applications and services running inside such clusters from the get-go. Crossplane compositions enable us to combine all that. AWS, Azure, Google, and other cloud providers can be used to manage infrastructure. When those are combined with Helm and Kubernetes providers, we have everything we need defined as a single claim.

Production-Ready Kubernetes Clusters Using Crossplane Compositions

How can we apply GitOps principles to infrastructure? We can, for example, use Flux but that means that infrastructure needs to be defined as Kubernetes resources. Crossplane might be one of the few, if not the only tool, that allows us to define infrastructure as a set of Kubernetes custom resources.

Applying GitOps To Infrastructure With Flux And Crossplane

One such example is the monitoring and logging stack based on Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Loki, And Promtail.&nbsp;

Prometheus, AlertManager, Grafana, Loki, And Promtail as a Crossplane Composition

This was a live session at Platform Engineering Day in Paris on March 20, 2024. The recorded session is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxpUPUIicTs">originally hosted on the CNCF's channel here</a>.Sponsored Keynote: Crossplane—The Best Kept Secret in Platform Engineering—Bassam Tabbara, UpboundSo your company has decided to invest in an internal developer platform? This multi-year initiative is likely to bring new levels of developer productivity and decrease overall costs. What recipe should you follow for your platform? In this talk we share how Crossplane plays a critical role at the heart of every internal developer platform. It’s the best-kept secret within platform engineering teams. It’s no surprise given the world’s largest platforms are built on top of control planes.Learn how a bank and an athletic company are building their internal platforms to get a glimpse of Crossplane in action. We’ll highlight the benefits of using Crossplane to create self-service, scalable, and efficient platforms that abstract away the complexities of the underlying infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on what they do best: building applications.

Terraform? Pulumi? Helm? Kustomize? Ansible? None Of Those?

Upbound is the company behind the open source project, Crossplane. Our mission is to enable a new era of infrastructure management that is automated, reliable, efficient and empowers application teams to self-service and deliver software faster, accelerating innovation. Our products help customers deploy control plane architectures to production and manage them at scale. We offer subscriptions which meet the needs of both individual community members, and large enterprises managing some of the most complicated infrastructure environments in the world. Learn more at <a href="https://upbound.io." target="_blank">https://upbound.io</a>.

Upbound Overview

Upbound is democratizing the best kept secret in cloud computing—the control plane—giving platform engineers centralized control and developers the freedom of self service.

Upbound, Managed Control Planes Explained

This session originally occurred at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 in Paris, hosted by the CNCF. It is posted and lives <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2N8nw1YcqqKveySH6_0VnI0">on their YouTube channel here</a>.Crossplane Observability &amp;Traceability for Effective Multi-Cloud Management - Katharina Sick, Dynatrace &amp; Viktor Farcic, Upbound Companies adopting cloud-native technologies increasingly use declarative definitions of cloud infrastructure. This shift offers excellent scalability, flexibility and agility opportunities, but also comes with challenges: What if resource creation takes longer than expected? What if resources fail to materialize at all? How to identify problems and potential performance optimizations?The answer lies in a familiar strategy: as in software development, we can address these challenges through instrumentation and leveraging observability data to uncover patterns, pinpoint root causes, and drive informed optimizations. Join to learn how to answer those questions using existing metrics, logs and distributed traces emitted by tools like Crossplane, a popular open source CNCF project.&nbsp;

[CNCF Hosted] Crossplane Observability &Traceability for Effective Multi-Cloud Management

This session originally occurred at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 in Paris, hosted by the CNCF. It is posted and lives <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2N8nw1YcqqKveySH6_0VnI0">on their YouTube channel here</a>.How Crossplane is Accelerating Your Cloud Native Control Plane Journey | Project Lightning TalkWe've listened to all the feedback from the community about how it can be challenging to get started with Crossplane, so in recent releases we've invested heavily into improving the developer experience and making it quicker and easier to successfully create a cloud native control plane and have it running reliably in production.We will start the tour by showing off the new init command, through which you can rapidly initialise a new Crossplane Function, Provider, or Configuration project based on common templates. Using post-init hooks to continue the journey, we will customise our Function to start capturing the unique requirements of our control plane.We'll then start the local development cycle using the render command to execute our Function and get early development feedback and rapidly arrive at our desired functionality. We'll further verify the correctness of our control plane's behavior with the new validate command, which will point out any ways that our generated resources may differ from their expected specification. With our cloud native control plane verified in the local development loop, we deploy to a live production environment.But what if an elusive issue appears there that we can't quite pinpoint? This is where the new trace command shines to give you a tree-like graph of related resources in which you can easily identify and resolve the culprit! Finally, we will quickly show how you can observe the Crossplane health and resource usage using the new top command, further ensuring your production environment remains healthy and reliable.

[CNCF Hosted] How Crossplane is Accelerating Your Cloud Native Control Plane Journey

This session originally occurred at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 in Paris, hosted by the CNCF. It is posted and lives <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2N8nw1YcqqKveySH6_0VnI0">on their YouTube channel here</a>.Shift-Left: Past, Present, and Future of Validation in CI for GitOps Workflows - Alexander Zielenski, Google &amp; Stefan Schimanski, UpboundGitOps has become the de facto approach for managing configurations. However; without robust validation mechanisms, automated deployments can lead to unpredictable outcomes and high maintenance costs.Up until now GitOps users have largely been on their own for this critical step of their pipeline. Ever see a CI hooked up to prod? Or dry-running against a cluster that takes 10 minutes to spin up? Or forget to update an ObjectReference? Many real world usages defer to spinning up an apiserver with hundreds of CRDs installed as part of CI/CD just to test their manifests, since nothing else is reliable; others resort to incomplete and incorrect JSON schema validations.This is slow, expensive, and wastes valuable time.

[CNCF Hosted] Shift-Left: Past, Present, and Future of Validation in CI for GitOps Workflows

This session originally occurred at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 in Paris, hosted by the CNCF. It is posted and lives <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2N8nw1YcqqKveySH6_0VnI0">on their YouTube channel here</a>.Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - the Cloud Native Control Plane Framework — Jared Watts &amp; Philippe Scorsolini, UpboundThe maintainers of Crossplane, a CNCF Incubating project, will lead this session that will introduce the project to new attendees, as well as dive into the finer details of Crossplane’s functionality and roadmap.&nbsp;We will take a tour through the key features included in the latest releases, what problems and use cases they are solving, and how you can adopt them into your control planes. Finally, there will be an interactive opportunity to engage with the maintainers, ask questions, and influence the future of the project direction.

[CNCF Hosted] Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive—the Cloud Native Control Plane Framework

This session originally occurred at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 in Paris, hosted by the CNCF. It is posted and lives <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2N8nw1YcqqKveySH6_0VnI0">on their YouTube channel here</a>.Why Kubernetes Is Inappropriate for Platforms, and How to Make It Better. — Stefan Schimanski, Upbound; Mangirdas Judeikis, Cast AI; Sebastian Scheele, KubermaticThe ecosystem is building platforms on Kubernetes now, starting with a hub cluster and then sticking tools for Gitops, for application descriptions and for infrastructure management together, with the goal to create custom APIs for the platform consumers. This works, but hits limits of Kube as a framework quickly.Can we do better? Oh yes, we can! This talk is about extending Kube, adapting its architecture to be a better fit for a world where instead of container orchestration two new personas are at the center: (a) the service &amp; API provider (b) the self-service consumer, often developers or application owners. We focus on 3 dimensions to enable Kube to serve platform engineering better:<ul><li>From kcp we take the workspace hiararchy as a vastly better multi-tenancy primitive.&nbsp;</li><li>Cross-workspace API exports and bindings tailor-made for the service provider and consumer personas.&nbsp;</li><li>Cluster mounting that integrates Kube clusters for a unified user interface and identity management.</li></ul>

[CNCF Hosted] Why Kubernetes is Inappropriate for Platforms, and How to Make it Better

This session originally occurred at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 in Paris, hosted by the CNCF. It is posted and lives <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2N8nw1YcqqKveySH6_0VnI0">on their YouTube channel here</a>.Building Confidence in Kubernetes Controllers: Lessons Learned from Using E2e-Framework — Matteo Ruina, Datadog &amp; Philippe Scorsolini, UpboundWhen working with cluster components, or while developing new controllers, it is often necessary to run end-to-end (E2E) tests against real clusters. This allows developers to have confidence in the changes being made, allowing for frequent updates without compromising on reliability. Although Kubernetes has its own E2E framework, it is baked into the Kubernetes source code, making it difficult to consume from other projects.For this reason, the Testing Special Interest Group built the e2e-framework, an out-of-tree Go framework to define end-to-end tests suites that can be used to test Kubernetes components. In this session we will talk about the e2e-framework. We will cover why we chose this framework, how to start writing your own tests, the approach we took, as well as the drawbacks you need to be aware of.

[CNCF Hosted] Building Confidence in Kubernetes Controllers: Lessons Learned from Using E2e-Framework

This session originally occurred at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2024 in Paris, hosted by the CNCF. It is posted and lives <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj6h78yzYM2N8nw1YcqqKveySH6_0VnI0">on their YouTube channel here</a>.Choose Your Own Adventure: The Struggle for Security - Whitney Lee, VMware &amp; Viktor Farcic, UpboundOur hero, a running application in a Kubernetes production environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They are serving end users, but currently, they are also endangering those users, the system, and themselves! But the struggle for security is HARD, filled with system design choices concerning secrets management; cluster-level, runtime, and network policies; and image scanning and signing.It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero and help them grow from a vulnerable, unprotected application to their final form⎯an app that is secure against invasion. In their third KubeCon ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they try to protect themselves against every kind of exploit. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero app's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects to safeguard our app, system, and users against attack before the session time elapses?

[CNCF Hosted] Choose Your Own Adventure: The Struggle for Security—Whitney Lee, VMware & Viktor Farcic, Upbound

This session was originally hosted at KubeCon EU, and the recorded session lives on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5Rd0X7AROw">CNCF's channel here</a>.Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive — the Cloud Native Control Plane Framework — Jared Watts &amp; Nic Cope, UpboundThe maintainers of Crossplane, a CNCF Incubating project, will lead this session that will introduce the project to new attendees, as well as dive into the finer details of Crossplane’s functionality and roadmap. We will explain how Crossplane enables you to compose cloud infrastructure and services into your custom platform APIs, and how best to get started building a platform of your own. We will take a tour through the key features included in the latest releases, what problems and use cases they are solving, and how you can adopt them into your control planes. Finally, there will be an interactive opportunity to engage with the maintainers, ask questions, and influence the future of the project direction.

[CNCF Hosted] Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive — the Cloud Native Control Plane Framework

This was originally presented at KubeCon North America in Chicago, and is hosted on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfjYrxTiOac&amp;list=PLj6h78yzYM2MYc0X1465RzF_7Cqf7bnqL&amp;index=93">CNCF's Channel here</a>.API Machinery Dual Maintainer Track — Federico Bongiovanni &amp; Leila Jalali, Google; Stefan Schimanski, UpboundWe will have 2-topic session:<ul><li>The first half: Introduction &amp; SIG Overview</li><li>The second half: A) Generic Control Planes, B) Ratcheting CRD Validation</li></ul>Join us for an informative talk! In the first half of the presentation, you'll delve into the world of API Machinery, gaining valuable insights into the opportunities available to you to start your contributions to our projects. Then, we learn more about Generic Control Planes and Ratcheting CRD Validation.Introduction &amp; SIG Overview (Leila Jalali) Leila will cover a comprehensive overview about the SIG: Where are we on the journey? Introduction &amp; SIG Overview What do we own? Why is it so important and complex? Roadmap Generic API Server Roadmap (Stefan Schimanski) Stefan will highlight developments in Sig-API-Machinery that fly under the radar of big new feature work in Kubernetes, but that will have an impact on how the ecosystem is building Kubernetes extensions. In particular, generic control planes will be discussed and automatic and explicit ratcheting validation. The latter will make CRD schema evolution dramatically easier, and everybody shipping CRDs should know about what's coming.

[CNCF Hosted] API Machinery Dual Maintainer Track

This live session originally occurred at KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago, and the on demand version is hosted on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcpm4HiRktY&amp;list=PLj6h78yzYM2MYc0X1465RzF_7Cqf7bnqL&amp;index=44">CNCF's channel here</a>.Streamlining Infrastructure with Crossplane: A Transformation Story — Clément Blaise, Consensys &amp; Jared Watts, UpboundInfrastructure management can rapidly become a labyrinth of repetitive and complex tasks, leading to inefficient operations. This was our story – managing individual Terraform repositories for every project in our organization, each with its unique requirements. Our pursuit of a sustainable solution led us to Crossplane, a CNCF project that allowed us to create an internal developer platform. This platform, built in less than six months by a team of two, transformed our infrastructure approach. The time-consuming process that used to take weeks or months is now available in an efficient low-code experience that takes mere hours. In this session, we will walk through our journey of building this platform with Crossplane, discussing how we used the concept of “composition” to enforce architectural standards while still providing flexibility for customization based on project requirements. Finally, we will show how you can start your own journey to build your platform too.

[CNCF Hosted] Streamlining Infrastructure with Crossplane: A Transformation Story

This talk was presented at KubeCon China 2024.Upbound Crossplane has become the foundation of many Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). A requirement for any IDP in production is the ability to make changes and upgrades to the platform with confidence. This talk will cover testing and release patterns based on our experience building production-ready environments across a range of Crossplane users. We’ll cover the lifecycle of a Crossplane Composition upgrade, from local commit to pull request to target customer environment, end-to-end testing tools, handling API changes, and how to control updates to customer environments. For quite a while, testing Crossplane Compositions meant relying exclusively on costly end-to-end layers. In this talk, we're unveiling new unit testing capabilities that allow you to evaluate and test your Composition code in complete isolation.&nbsp;Crossplane已成为许多内部开发者平台（IDPs）的基础。在生产中，任何IDP的要求都是能够有信心地对平台进行更改和升级。 本次演讲将涵盖基于我们在跨多个Crossplane用户构建生产就绪环境的经验，讨论测试和发布模式。 我们将介绍Crossplane Composition升级的生命周期，从本地提交到拉取请求再到目标客户环境，端到端测试工具，处理API更改以及如何控制对客户环境的更新。 相当长一段时间以来，测试Crossplane Compositions意味着完全依赖昂贵的端到端层。在本次演讲中，我们将揭示新的单元测试功能，使您能够在完全隔离的环境中评估和测试您的Composition代码。

[CNCF Hosted] Testing and Release Patterns for Crossplane | 跨平面的测试和发布模式 - Yury Tsarev & Steven Borrelli, Upbound

This is originally hosted on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqPpdF7kZgA">Crossplane channel here</a>.Crossplane, an open source CNCF project, is a framework to build your own opinionated cloud native control planes that you can use to manage everything. Viktor Farcic, developer advocate at Upbound, shares a few project highlights at KubeCon Chicago 2023 during the keynote. Learn more at <a href="https://www.crossplane.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.crossplane.io/</a>.

[Crossplane Hosted] Crossplane Highlights at KubeCon North America, Chicago, 2023

This is originally posted and hosted on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBfo7FYd0aM">ITQ's channel here</a>.Carlo Mestre Del Pino (Platform Engineering Consultant at ITQ) and Jared Watts (Founding Engineer at Upbound) spoke about Crossplane compositions, functions, and how they can be leveraged on the on-prem world for building an abstracted platform.&nbsp;

[ITQ Hosted] Interview with Jared Watts about Crossplane – Live at KubeCon 2024

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.Learn how to securely and seamlessly integrate with cloud providers' secret management systems using ESO, and see how to leverage Crossplane's infrastructure as code capabilities to ensure your secrets are consistently deployed wherever they're needed.Consider joining the channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit/join" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit/join</a>

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] How to Propagate Secrets Everywhere with External Secrets Operator (ESO) and Crossplane

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.This video is the first part of a series <a href="https://www.upbound.io/resources/lp/book/crossplane-cloud-native-control-plane">visualizing an eBook, available here</a>.Crossplane compositions allow us to define interfaces (CRDs) and controllers that represent services we can use to enable others to manage resources like databases, clusters, applications, or anything else.

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Crossplane Compositions | Tutorial (Part 3)

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.This time, we're using Kubernetes for all observability needs, including for the resources outside of Kubernetes. We're using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Crossplane to monitor everything, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, or any other type of infrastructure or services.&nbsp;

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Observability From Kubernetes Out Of Kubernetes With Cloud-Native Tools

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.This video is the first part of a series <a href="https://www.upbound.io/resources/lp/book/crossplane-cloud-native-control-plane">visualizing an eBook, available here</a>.Watch as we guide you through the process of setting up and utilizing various providers and resources to manage your cloud infrastructure and services using Crossplane's Kubernetes-style APIs. In this video, you'll learn how to configure connections to cloud providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure, and show you how to create and manage resources in those.&nbsp;

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Crossplane Providers and Managed Resources | Tutorial (Part 2)

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.This video is the first part of a series <a href="https://www.upbound.io/resources/lp/book/crossplane-cloud-native-control-plane">visualizing an eBook, available here</a>.In this introductory video, "Getting Started with Crossplane: A Glimpse Into the Future", we lay the foundation for creating and managing cloud infrastructure in a cloud-agnostic manner using Kubernetes and Crossplane. Whether you're a DevOps enthusiast, a cloud engineer, or a software developer, you'll discover how to unleash the full potential of Crossplane to orchestrate your environment seamlessly.By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a clear understanding of some of Crossplane's capabilities, and you'll be ready to dive deeper all aspects of Crossplane as well as its integration with the Kubernetes ecosystem in the upcoming videos of this series. Part 2 builds upon this foundation, exploring more intricate configurations and diving into Crossplane's powerful composition features.&nbsp;

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Getting Started with Crossplane: A Glimpse Into the Future | Tutorial (Part 1)

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.This video covers benefits of Crossplane composition functions, implementation techniques, and real-world use cases, offering an introduction guide to harnessing the full potential of Crossplane.

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Crossplane Composition Functions: Unleashing the Full Potential

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.What makes a system secure? How do we secure everything, no matter whether it's running inside Kubernetes clusters, Cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), or anything else?&nbsp;

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] How To Secure Everything Without Making Everyone Suffer

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.Shifting left by saying "now you do it" does not work. If you want to enable developers to be productive and self-sufficient, you have to build an IDP (Internal Developer Platform).&nbsp;

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] DevOps MUST Build Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.What do we need to do to enable everyone to self-serve themselves when infrastructure is concerned? How can we create, operate, and destroy Kubernetes clusters without the need to involve anyone else? How can we customize the experience to fulfill the needs of our users? How can we provide a good user experience through services? How can we ensure that we are following best practices?

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Internal Developer Platform (IDP) For Infrastructure

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.The job of ops should not be to create and manage infrastructure for other teams. Instead, it should be to enable other teams to manage their own infra. It should be about creating tools and platforms that are opinionated, yet provide sufficient freedom for the teams, no matter whether they are using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP), or any other provider. We can accomplish those goals with Crossplane Compositions and Kubernetes.&nbsp;

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] How To Shift Left Infrastructure Management Using Crossplane Compositions

This is originally hosted on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqPpdF7kZgA">Crossplane channel here</a>.

[Crossplane Hosted] Build your own cloud platform with Crossplane featuring Jared Watts, Upbound

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.Which Infrastructure as code (IaC) tool is the best? Is it Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane? Which one should you use?

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Terraform vs. Pulumi vs. Crossplane - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Tools Comparison

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.Crossplane is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) project that enables us to use Kubernetes to provision and manage infrastructure, services, and applications. Combined with Argo CD or Flux, it allows us to apply GitOps principles not only on infrastructure. Please watch "<a href="https://resources.upbound.io/community-videos/terraform-vs-pulumi-vs-crossplane-infrastructure-as-code-iac-tools-comparison">Terraform vs. Pulumi vs. Crossplane</a>" if you'd like to see a comparison with other IaC tools.&nbsp;

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Crossplane - GitOps-based Infrastructure as Code through Kubernetes API

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.How to manage infrastructure, applications, and services? How to apply GitOps principles to everything? How to ensure that all the resources are always in-sync? Can we combine infrastructure, application, and service management using ArgoCD and Crossplane?&nbsp;

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] How To Apply GitOps To Everything - Combining Argo CD And Crossplane

This video is originally published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit">DevOps Toolkit channel</a>, created and hosted by Viktor Farcic.Can we make Kubernetes disappear? Can we make infrastructure and application management so simple that anyone can do it? Can we leverage DevOps, SRE, ops, and sysadmin experience to create a system that would make developers autonomous? TL;DR We can do that by combining ArgoCD (GitOps), Crossplane (control plane), Kubevela (OAM), and a few other tools.

[DevOps Toolkit Hosted] Combining Argo CD (GitOps), Crossplane (Control Plane), And KubeVela (OAM)

This talk occurred at KubeCon SLC, 2024The platform engineering team's role has evolved into a pivotal one as the custodian of the internal developer platform. However, these teams often find themselves in a quagmire of identifying the right components to include in their platforms, particularly in the ever-expanding CNCF landscape. This panel session discusses these challenges by exploring the concept of 'Paved Paths' as a strategic approach to guide platform teams in their journey of building an internal developer platform (IDP). 'Paved Paths' offers a solution by providing platform engineering teams with proven reference architectures (e.g. CNOE and the BACK Stack).This approach prevents them from starting from scratch and getting lost in the vast CNCF landscape. By offering proven and opinionated reference architectures, platform teams can focus on enhancing developer experiences and optimizing higher-level workflows rather than grappling with the complexities of identifying foundational components for their IDP.

[CNCF Hosted] Creating Paved Paths for Platform Engineers

This talk occurred at KubeCon SLC, 2024In the realm of developer platforms, individuals without extensive experience in the cloud-native ecosystem are now venturing into the creation of Kubernetes-based APIs. Tools like Crossplane are transforming every platform engineer into an API designer. Ten years in, the ecosystem still offers little guidance on Kubernetes versioning and API evolution in practice. A naive understanding is not helpful, and many have been burned by relying on intuition. This talk will provide deep, yet applicable knowledge, starting from the first principles of the invariants to maintain when changing APIs in Kubernetes. It will cover tools like schemas, conversion, validation, and admission, and present very concrete and directly applicable API Evolution Patterns. These patterns will help navigate the life cycle of CRD-based projects. This talk aims to educate on how to evolve APIs effectively and safely without inadvertently breaking users.

[CNCF Hosted] The Missing Talk About API Versioning & Evolution in Your Developer Platform

This talk occurred at KubeCon SLC, 2024The maintainers of Crossplane, a CNCF Incubating project, will lead this session that will introduce the project to new attendees, as well as dive deeper into details of Crossplane’s latest features and releases. There is always something new to show off at Kubecon! We will start with the basics on how Crossplane enables you to compose cloud infrastructure and services into custom platform APIs, and accelerate the journey of folks new to Crossplane to build a control plane of their own. Then we will take a detailed tour through the key features from the latest releases and how to adopt them into your platforms, including high level metrics, change logs, claim errors/status, and more! Finally, there will be an interactive opportunity to engage with the maintainers, ask questions, and influence the future of the project direction.

[CNCF Hosted] Crossplane Intro and Deep Dive - The Cloud Native Control Plane Framework

This talk occurred at KubeCon SLC, 2024k8gb: Global Load Balancing, the Kubernetes Way | Project Lightning Talk Discover how the k8gb project brings global load balancing to Kubernetes clusters. This talk will introduce the k8gb project, highlighting its core features such as global load balancing, high availability, seamless failover, and its new extensibility feature that allows integration with various resources like Gateways and non-HTTP Services. Learn about its architecture, real-world use cases, future plans, and how you can get involved.

[CNCF Hosted] k8gb: Global Load Balancing, the Kubernetes Way | Project Lightning Talk

This talk occurred at KubeCon SLC, 2024Mentorship, a cornerstone of the community's success, offers a transformative path to growth and development. However, finding the right mentor and building a successful mentorship relationship can be challenging. This panel discussion brings together experienced mentors from diverse roles within the Kubernetes community including maintainers, tech leads, and committee members. The panel members will share their insights on how to get the most out of mentorship at different stages of your Kubernetes journey, as you climb the Contributor ladder.By the end of this panel, the audience will understand essential takeaways for effective mentorship at different contributor ladder marks. The project maintainers can take inspiration from how the Kubernetes project maintainers make use of various mentorship techniques such as Role Based Shadowing, Peer-to-Peer Learning, and Mentorship Cohorts that can help any project especially CNCF incubating projects stick new contributors to the project.

[CNCF Hosted] Beyond 'Can You Mentor Me?' - Crafting the Contribution Ladder

This talk occurred at KubeCon SLC, 2024Our hero, a running app in a secure K8s prod environment, knows they are destined for greater things! They're serving end users, but currently, they have no idea what is going on. Are apps scaling correctly? Are automated deployments successful? What just went wrong, and how can it be fixed? Hero is desperate to escape this fog by adding CNCF tools for metrics, traces, and progressive delivery. It is up to you, the audience, to guide our hero and help them grow from a lost and confused app to their final form⎯an app that knows their faults before their users do.In their fourth KubeCon 'Choose Your Own Adventure'-style talk, Whitney and Viktor will present choices that an anthropomorphized app must make as they add observability to their cluster, enabling the ability to answer arbitrary questions about their system. Throughout the presentation, the audience (YOU!) will vote to decide our hero's path! Can we navigate CNCF projects and add observability before the session time elapses?

[CNCF Hosted] Choose Your Own Adventure: The Observability Odyssey

Join us for an exclusive first look at Upbound’s next major release, where we’ll unveil groundbreaking enhancements to our platform that will transform how developers and platform engineers build and scale cloud-native services. Learn how Upbound will help you and your teams learn and build with Crossplane faster. Hear about our new capabilities, which allow you to deploy self-service cloud platforms based on Crossplane faster and with greater resiliency. Whether you're a Crossplane user or just curious about the future of cloud management, this event is not to be missed! Tune in live for in-depth demos, expert discussions, and a chance to ask questions directly to the Upbound team.

Elevate Platforming with Crossplane: Upbound's Innovations for Developers and Platform Teams

This talk occurred at KubeCon SLC, 2024The Kubernetes code now allows native construction of generic control planes, without container types and in new form-factors other than your beloved clusters, be it customized apiserver binaries or embedded into other applications. This talk gives an in-depth explanation of what a generic controlplane is, how to construct it, how to extend it with custom types and how to control which native Kube APIs like secrets, configmaps, etc. or mechanisms like resource quota or RBAC are available. Specifically, we will cover 3 variants: 1. single-tenant generic control planes using upstream Kubernetes. 2. multi-tenant generic control planes using kcp to scale horizontally in one process. 3. multi-shard and multi-region generic control planes with focus of backing SaaS services.

[CNCF Hosted] Deep Dive Into Generic Control Planes and Kcp

This talk occurred at KubeCon SLC, 2024Kubernetes RBAC is an effective way of managing ACLs in one cluster. However, there are many other effective paradigms out there, such as Attribute- &amp; Relation-based Access Control. In this talk, we’ll demystify how these differ, and when to use respective paradigms, giving context and guidance. We’ll highlight how Kubernetes access control has recently evolved towards supporting lots of different use-cases. We take this opportunity to cover multiple perspectives: security within a single cluster (zooming in) and security within real-life production environments with external services and multiple clusters (zooming out). As containers became ubiquitous first with excellent tools like Docker, we believe the same can and will happen for access control, yielding uniform, interoperable and understandable authorization. Finally, we'll propose future work that could be done to supercharge Kubernetes and ensure it keeps up with the ever increasing security requirements in our industry.

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