The future of CRDs in a post-cluster world - Sebastian Scheele & Stefan Schimanski

Talk by Sebastian Scheele, Kubermatic and Stefan Schimanski, RedHat at ContainerDays 2022. CRDs and operators work well in a single cluster. In a multi- or post-cluster world they don’t. Managing CRDs and operators themselves becomes awkward and a problem in itself. With many many clusters, we need new solutions. What if an operator and CRDs had first-class support to provide services in many clusters, natively implemented in the apiserver? This talk is about lifting both up, and with that demonstrating how a world looks like where CRD-based APIs and applications are available in a fleet of clusters, independent of cloud, data center and region, for one enterprise or highly multi-tenant service providers.