Exploring Tenant-centric Strategies To Simplify Multi-cluster and Multi-cloud Complexities

Discover tenant-centric strategies for simplifying multi-cluster and multi-cloud complexities in this conference talk from Apple engineers Wei Huang and Fan Yang at a CNCF event. Analyze key pain points in platform engineering and explore a new perspective on infrastructure code that separates different personas' views. Learn about advocating for tenant-centric APIs that prioritize user experience by minimizing input, reducing learning curves, and abstracting cloud provider details to decouple desired resources from underlying specifications. Examine a design for fanning out tenant resource claims that enhances flexibility and extensibility through code generation components and Kubernetes-like labeling systems. Understand how to bind everything together using Pkl for templating and validation, Prow for GitHub event-driven automation, and Crossplane with ArgoCD as the claim realization engine. Gain insights into managing end-to-end release and deployment lifecycles more effectively, even with modern platform engineering techniques, while addressing the challenges of using Kubernetes as a platform for building platforms.