Universal Control Planes for Kubernetes and Beyond

In this episode of KubernetesBytes, Bhavin and Ryan interview Viktor Farcic, a Developer Advocate from Upbound, the company behind Crossplane. Crossplane extends Kubernetes into becoming a universal control plane for more than what runs in Kubernetes, however, you get to manage everything in a Kubernetes-native way. Hear what Viktor has to say about Crossplane and what hes been up to.  

• 01:35 Introduction 
• 08:29 Cloud Native News 
• 16:15 Crossplane with Viktor

 Cloud Native News 

• https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/series-b-funding  
• https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/introducing-honeycomb-for-kubernetes?hss_channel=lcp-12957659 
• https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/microsoft-launches-radius-an-open-source-application-platform-for-the-cloud/ 
• https://docs.radapp.io/ 
• https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/urgent-new-security-flaws-discovered-in.html 
• https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/news/366557752/CloudCasa-now-offers-self-hosted-Kubernetes-backup-service 
• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kubecost-launches-cloud-cost-optimization-080000850.html   

Links 

• https://youtube.com/@UCfz8x0lVzJpb_dgWm9kPVrw
• https://docs.crossplane.io/ 
• https://www.crossplane.io/community

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