When organizations adopt Kubernetes, they want to improve productivity, developer experience, and consistency.Kubernetes is used by some customers as a platform, and IaC tooling is used to provision backing services. Others are trying to standardize Kubernetes as a centralized API to manage both application components: runtime and infrastructure.Platform teams focus on building deployment abstractions to reduce cognitive load on developers and facilitate deployment of fully configured applications.
The session will explore different options for deploying infrastructure and runtime components of the application and showcase open source tools such as Kubevela and Crossplane that enable those deployments. We will conclude with a demonstration to deploy the application components (runtime and infrastructure services) leveraging Kubernets API as an abstraction layer, with OSS GitOps tooling.