The CNCF Cloud landscape is vast and interoperable. Clusters come in all shapes, sizes and configurations. Linux Distributions provide "batteries included" installations with key components chosen for you - how well does this concept apply to Kubernetes Distributions?

OKD is the upstream community of Red Hat's OpenShift Kubernetes offering. A la Fedora/CentOS vs RHEL.

OKD makes numerous decisions for you out of the box, including your Node Operating System, security constraints within Kubernetes, built-in image registries, monitoring, observability, and OLM.

Beyond the base cluster is an ecosystem of operators (OKDerators) with integrated versions of Rook, KubeVirt, ArgoCD, Istio + more. They are augmented with custom console plugins, CLI tooling and documentation to provide better dev+admin experience.

This talk will explore some of the key opinions and present live demos of both the base cluster and select OKDerators deployed in a test environment.