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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

Building a Cloud Platform Where Everything is Just Another Kubernetes Resource

Patrick Koss

Scaling Terraform caused grueling ten-hour deployment plans. Learn how shifting to a Kubernetes control plane eliminates infrastructure drift and supercharges self-service provisioning.

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#1 about 4 min

Managing cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes custom resources

Mapping YAML manifests directly to REST API calls simplifies cloud resource provisioning and reduces context switching.

#2 about 5 min

Limitations of infrastructure as code at massive scale

Monolithic state files, serialized pipeline executions, and fragile deletion policies create unmanageable bottlenecks in complex environments.

#3 about 4 min

Comparing static applies with continuous Kubernetes reconcile loops

Eventual consistency and continuous reconciliation offer significant reliability advantages over static state files and manual pipelines.

#4 about 6 min

Provisioning cloud infrastructure using Crossplane custom controllers

Implementing custom controllers that rely on long polling and simplified interfaces allows seamless management of external components.

#5 about 6 min

Designing a self-service internal developer platform with GitOps

Bootstrapping standardized environments using self-service APIs and distributed secret management drastically accelerates secure application deployment.

#6 about 6 min

Scaling control planes and enforcing governance via admission webhooks

Distributing workloads across fan-out architectures prevents API server overload while policy engines enforce strict security rules.

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