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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN AI AGENT: THE COMPLETE ARCHITECTURE FOR ENGINEERING TEAMS | AI SRE Summit 2026 | 2026-05-12 |
Architectural blueprint for a production agent that ties system context, tool descriptions, and just-in-time knowledge via an ingestion pipeline from git… | ||
| Your AI Is a Toddler With Root Access: Why Kubernetes Policies Are Your Last Line... | KyvernoCon NA 2025 | 2025-11-10 |
Claim: AI agents can rapidly create and deploy misconfigured resources so Kubernetes admission policies must be enforced as last-line blast doors. Demo builds… | ||
| Let the Platform Build Itself: Using AI To Construct an Internal Developer Platform With CNCF Tools | Platform Engineering Day North America 2025 | 2025-11-10 |
Claim: a developer writes intent in natural language and an AI agent composes an Internal Developer Platform using CNCF tools and company policies. The demo… | ||
| The Past, the Present, and the Future of Platform Engineering | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 | 2025-06-10 |
Platform engineering on Kubernetes converges on a clear claim: build an API-first control plane that uses existing CNCF building blocks rather than reinventing… | ||
| The Past, the Present, and the Future of Platform Engineering | Platform Engineering Day 2025 - Europe | 2025-04-01 |
Platform engineering is framed as decades of repeated failure then a clear pattern emerges: API + controllers pattern layered on Kubernetes as the standard… | ||
| A Million Ways To Promote Changes Between Environments | ArgoCon Europe 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Compares concrete promotion patterns and what actually works: CI-driven pipelines that run argo sync and hang waiting for long canaries, Image Updater commits… | ||
| Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platf... | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Live demo builds an Internal Developer Platform using Crossplane for Kubernetes APIs, which turns a 10-line SQL claim into AWS VPC, subnets and security… | ||
| Developer Platform Consoles Should Be Dumb | Platform Engineering Day NA 2024 | 2024-11-12 |
Argument: developer portals must be dumb — they should discover CRD schemas from Kubernetes instead of forcing engineers to hand‑rewrite hundreds of lines of… | ||
| Choose Your Own Adventure: The Struggle for Security | KubeDay Japan 2024 | 2024-08-27 |
Live demo uses AWS EKS + Crossplane + Argo CD and an app already running behind Contour; cluster-level policy choices are Kyverno, OPA Gatekeeper, and… | ||
| Unleashing the Power of Serverless Computing in Kubernetes with Knati... | KubeDay Japan 2024 | 2024-08-27 |
Hands-on build of a serverless app and its infra on Kubernetes that actually works end to end: code is pulled from Git, an image is built automatically… | ||
| Developer Platform Consoles Should Be Dumb | PlatformCon 2024 Live Day London | 2024-06-12 |
Argues that consoles should be dumb frontends that discover API schemas and render forms, not contain logic; uses Port to auto-generate forms from Kubernetes… | ||
| APIs should be products, devportals too - or shouldn't they? | Apidays Helsinki & North 2024 | 2024-05-28 |
Argues that APIs are utilities not products, showing why shared API standards (Kubernetes, PSD2, telecom APIs via the Linux Foundation) scale better than… | ||
| Unleashing the Power of Serverless on K8s with Knative, Crossplane, Dapr, KEDA | KCD Islamabad 2024 | 2024-05-03 |
Demo builds a full serverless path on Kubernetes using Crossplane to provision an AWS cluster (~20 minutes) and an RDS Postgres (~10 minutes)… | ||
| Keynote: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Perilous Passage to Production | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023 | 2023-09-26 |
Demo constructs a full dev-to-prod path: container image built with Cloud Native Buildpacks, images stored in Harbor, cluster provisioned with Crossplane… | ||
| k8s Validating Admission Policy And Crossplane - Viktor Farcic | ContainerDays 2023 | 2023-09-11 |
Claim: enforce Policy-as-Code for an Internal Developer Platform by validating a single high-level resource instead of dozens of low-level objects. Uses… | ||
| Kubernetes: Business Challenges | KCD Guatemala 2023 | 2023-08-19 |
Viktor Farcic explains using Policy-as-Code and Internal Developer Platforms to reduce risks from misconfiguration or malicious actions by combining Kubernetes… | ||
| The Treacherous Trek to Development | GOTO Aarhus 2023 | 2023-05-22 |
Source code becomes a container image built with Cloud Native Buildpacks, then the image is pushed to Docker Hub while Dragonfly peer-to-peer distribution… | ||
| How To Fight Misconfiguration And Bad Intentions | Craft Conference 2023 | 2023-05-18 |
Shows how an Internal Developer Platform built with Crossplane uses Kubernetes Validating Admission Policy to enforce concrete rules: example policy blocks… | ||
| How To Build An Internal Developer Platform (IDP)? | Craft Conference 2023 | 2023-05-18 |
Claims to build a working internal developer platform in 30 minutes and mostly demonstrates it: a Crossplane control plane on Kubernetes with Compositions that… | ||
| Shifting Left Stateful Applications In Kubernetes | KCD Israel 2023 | 2023-03-23 |
Shows how to shift left by turning ops knowhow into declarative Kubernetes APIs that developers consume without tickets using Crossplane compositions to… | ||
| The Only Thing That Matters In DevOps Is... | Heapcon 2022 | 2022-11-03 |
Argues that DevOps must enable self-sufficient teams by shipping an Internal Developer Platform that exposes simple custom resources and funnels all changes… | ||
| DevOps Is All About Building Internal Developer Platform (IDP) | DevOps Barcelona Conference 2022 | 2022-11-03 |
Argues that DevOps success comes from an Internal Developer Platform that exposes reusable services, not from handing developers cloud accounts. Shows a demo… | ||
| Building a FaaS Platform Using CNCF OSS Projects | KnativeCon North America 2022 | 2022-10-24 |
Shows a working FaaS platform built from CNCF pieces: a single command (kubectl apply) creates a Crossplane composition that provisions a vcluster, database… | ||
| Like Peas And Carrots: Argo CD And Crossplane For Infrastructure Management | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 | 2022-10-24 |
Shows a concrete Argo CD + Crossplane setup that manages AWS infra: three Crossplane providers (aws, helm, kubernetes), reusable irsa composition to create IAM… | ||
| End-To-End GitOps | ContainerDays 2022 | 2022-09-05 |
Argues GitOps should manage more than Kubernetes apps and demonstrates using Flux + Crossplane to provision infrastructure, clusters and databases from YAML… | ||
| How To Build Your Own Heroku in 2022? | Craft Conference 2022 | 2022-06-02 |
Claim: a Heroku-like, company-tailored platform is practical in 2022 by combining Kubernetes APIs, CRDs and control loops with Crossplane compositions and… | ||
| Production-scale Containerized Game Platform Practice in Bytedance | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 | 2022-05-16 |
ByteDance describes a Kubernetes game platform built with Crossplane compositions, KubeVela OAM model, and Agones fleet scaling to provision multi‑cloud… | ||
| Premiere | Conf42 Cloud Native 2022 | 2022-04-28 |
A rapid lineup of concrete claims and demos: iterative canary releases with feature toggles that cut rollback time and raise SLOs, a live Argo CD demo… | ||
| The Only Thing That Matters In DevOps Is... | Conf42 Cloud Native 2022 | 2022-04-28 |
Claim: build an Internal Developer Platform that lets application teams self-serve clusters, apps and managed databases. Uses Backstage + Argo CD sync +… | ||
| Freedom Means That Kubernetes Needs To Disappear | FOSDEM 2022 | 2022-02-05 |
We can enable developers to manage everything yet still be in complete control of the aspects they care about.
We are all moving towards service-based… | ||
| Using Kubernetes API To Manage Everything | FOSDEM 2022 | 2022-02-05 |
Explore the principles behind the universal control plane implemented through the open-source project Crossplane.
Wouldn't it be beneficial if we had a single… | ||
| Crossplane: Compose Infrastructure and Services Into... | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021 | 2021-12-09 |
Crossplane exposes a Kubernetes-based universal API and control plane that provisions AWS/GCP/etc. resources via provider CRDs, composes those granular… | ||
| Developers do not need Kubernetes | Craft Conference 2021 | 2021-06-02 |
Claim that developers shouldn't need to know Kubernetes and a live demo proving it by creating a Shipa framework, registering a cluster, then deploying an… | ||
| What is next for DevOps? | DevOps Pro Europe 2021 | 2021-05-11 |
Concrete moves and measurable outcomes: adopt cloud and Kubernetes, create start with a small autonomous team that can bypass legacy processes, invest in… | ||
| Combining Progressive Delivery with GitOps and Continuous Delivery | DevOps Pro Europe 2021 | 2021-05-11 |
Shows an end to end GitOps pipeline that builds images with Kaniko, promotes environments by committing to Git rather than touching clusters, and gates canary… | ||
| Panel: Emerging Trends in Cloud Engineering: Platform as product, APIs, self-service & more | Crossplane Community Day Europe 2021 | 2021-05-04 |
Predictions center on concrete shifts: teams build Heroku‑like developer platforms that sit atop Kubernetes using CRDs and operators, Crossplane for infra and… | ||
| Combining Progressive Delivery With GitOps And Continuous Delivery | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
Three phrases keep popping up when talking about modern workflows and development and deployment techniques; CD, GitOps, and progressive delivery.
Three… | ||
| Docker Is No More! What Now? | FOSDEM 2021 | 2021-02-06 |
How Are We Going To Live Without Docker?
What are we going to do without Docker inside Kubernetes clusters?
Dockershim has been deprecated in Kubernetes 1.20… | ||
| The Objectives And The Principles Behind GitOps | cdCon 2020 | 2020-10-07 |
Claims that git as sole source of truth forces humans to change only desired state while machines converge actual state; demonstrates this by installing Argo… | ||
| Making Resilient, Self-Adaptive, And Autonomous Kubernetes Clusters | Craft Conference 2019 | 2019-05-07 |
Argues for instrumenting services and automating responses: applications emit metrics to Prometheus + Alertmanager, logs go to stdout and a central store… | ||
| Continuous Deployment With Jenkins X And Kubernetes | Software Crafters Barcelona 2018 | 2018-09-29 |
Jenkins X (JX) uses a CLI to provision a GKE Kubernetes cluster, install Jenkins, Helm, chartmuseum and sample buildpacks, then create a GitHub repo, a full… | ||
| Microservices Lifecycle Through Docker an CD | Software Craftsmanship Barcelona 2017 | 2017-10-07 |
Shows an end-to-end microservice pipeline using Docker Swarm on a 3‑node cluster, building Go services with multi-stage builds into ~20MB images, running unit… | ||
| Self-Healing Systems | DevOps Pro Vilnius 2016 | 2016-05-26 |
Claim: build microservices-based systems that self-heal by detecting faults, reacting automatically and predicting trouble from history. Concrete steps: five… | ||
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