Keynote: CRDs, No Longer 2nd Class Thing!

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CRDs move from third‑party hack to first‑class mechanism by showing a real migration: the volume snapshot API starts as a CRD, survives review, gains end‑to‑end tests and docs, and lands in core; controllers update status and handle lifecycle successfully. Scaffolding with Kubebuilder generates API, CRD and reconcile loop in minutes — demo creates a panda resource and its controller updates status. Kubernetes has about 113 API types now and CRDs aim for GA parity.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:04Defining API
3. 2:45Rejection
4. 3:38History
5. 4:37Growth
6. 5:27Giant
7. 5:52Modular extensible
8. 6:20Urbanised
9. 7:04Resources
10. 7:39Panda
11. 8:12Character API
12. 8:50Our Journey
13. 9:16We Added
14. 9:35API
15. 10:54Snapshot
16. 12:09Cubular
17. 12:33Demo
18. 15:29Artist History
19. 16:34Other Components
20. 17:09Question Answer
21. 17:40The Future
22. 18:27References

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