Kubernetes-Powered Platform Engineering - From IaC to API-Driven Infrastructure

Explore how Kubernetes transforms platform engineering through API-driven infrastructure management in this 24-minute conference talk from CNCF. Discover how leveraging Kubernetes for platform engineering dramatically increases development efficiency, streamlines operations, and enables unprecedented scale through Kubernetes-native GitOps practices. Learn how the Kubernetes API becomes the cornerstone of GitOps workflows, solving key challenges in managing cloud resources and infrastructure at scale while transforming traditional approaches to allow teams to declaratively manage thousands of resources across complex environments using familiar Kubernetes objects and methodologies. Understand how platform abstractions overcome complex challenges and how automation aligns with Kubernetes controller principles using open-source tools. See demonstrations of how the powerful combination of Kro, ArgoCD, and ACK extends the Kubernetes API to drive GitOps for both applications and infrastructure, revolutionizing platform engineering on EKS through a truly Kubernetes-native GitOps approach that bridges the gap between Infrastructure as Code and API-driven infrastructure management.