AutoPiloting Kubernetes: how we built autonomous Control Planes
summary
Argues that GitOps and static desired-state hit limits at fleet scale and shows an AutoPilot model that decouples control planes from infrastructure using Kamaji and Project Sveltos. Describes hosted control planes + dynamic add‑ons that perform intent‑driven, event‑aware configuration, autonomous upgrades, and automated drift remediation; demo provisions hosted control planes, injects add‑ons, and self‑heals after manual deletions; scale test manages 1,000 clusters and the system operates without human tickets.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 1:54Kubernetes complexity and toil
- 4:03Cluster API overview
- 8:20Hosted control planes
- 13:18Introducing Zeltos
- 23:07Live demo of Zeltos
- 29:25Demo recap and Q&A
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