Kubernetes is widely recognized as a platform for building platforms, but even with modern platform engineering techniques, managing an end-to-end release and deployment lifecycle remains challenging.

This talk will first analyze key pain points in platform engineering and propose a new perspective on infrastructure code by separating different personas’ views. We advocate for a tenant-centric API that prioritizes user experience—minimizing input, reducing learning curves, and abstracting cloud provider details to decouple desired resources from underlying specs.

Next, we’ll introduce a design for fanning out tenant resource claims, enhancing flexibility and extensibility through a code generation component and a Kubernetes-like labeling system. Finally, we’ll cover the glue that binds everything together: Pkl for templating and validation, Prow for GitHub event-driven automation, and Crossplane + ArgoCD as the claim realization engine.