Effortless Platform Engineering: Multi-Cluster Valkey Deployments with k0rdent
summary
k0rdent deploys Valkey across clusters by bootstrapping a management cluster (kind + CAPD) and using Cluster API, Flux, Helm and Sweltos to push a Valkey operator into child clusters; the operator turns CRs into StatefulSets, PVCs and PDBs so Valkey instances come up automatically. The workflow relies on template-driven MultiClusterService objects and cataloged Helm charts, enforces TLS/secrets and tenancy, and demonstrates fleetwide consistency and painless upgrades using templated service values, verified by a working operator deployment.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
- 1:25Platform engineering overview
- 3:11Cloud complexity and Kubernetes role
- 6:02DevOps to platform engineering shift
- 8:12Internal developer platforms explained
- 14:36Valkey in platform engineering
- 18:27Valkey platform use cases and concerns
- 19:08Multicluster platform engineering challenges
- 21:14Introducing k0rdent
- 23:44k0rdent architecture and benefits
- 25:54Valkey with k0rdent deployment
- 30:53Prerequisites and setup demo
- 33:00Deploying Valkey operator
- 36:18How k0rdent and Valkey work together
- 37:44Platform teams and fleetwide consistency
- 38:26Internal developer platform example
- 39:11Closing and resources
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