Building a Platform Engineering Fabric with the Kube API at Autodesk

Explore Autodesk's journey in building a common deployment platform using the Kubernetes API in this conference talk. Learn how the company leveraged the operator pattern and Kube API extensibility to overcome monolithic challenges and enable a more flexible, distributed approach to platform engineering. Discover the implementation of Crossplane and KubeVela, which allow globally distributed teams to create loosely coupled capability primitives with independent release schedules. Gain insights into how these tools facilitate inner source contributions while maintaining security and compliance. Witness a demonstration of admission control and the use of Crossplane's compositions and XRDs in conjunction with Kubernetes RBAC to enforce security measures and sane defaults. Understand how Autodesk's approach empowers platform engineers and accelerates the delivery of cloud products while maintaining a strong separation of concerns.