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 the Kubernets API as an abstraction layer.

Kubernetes is a the commonly used platform for deploying containerized applications. It’s flexible and customizable with many configuration options. However, with such large ecosystem, developers wants to focus on what’s really matter for them, which is delivering business value through deploying applications. To address that need platform teams focus on building abstractions , to reduce the cognitive load from the developers, and providing mechanism to easily deploy fully configured application.
In this session we will cover the different options of achieving such abstractions , from self-developed systems, to open-source projects such as ACK, Helm, or Crossplane. We will discuss the design consideration when implementing such abstractions , and share some pitfalls around creating leaky abstractions.