This page is read only. You may view, but not change it. ===== Building Production Environments with open-source Kubernetes Operators ===== * **Speaker**: Pushkar Gopalakrishna * **Room**: 332 * **Time**: Saturday, [[https://pretalx.seagl.org/2026/talk/X9BRZY.ics|Oct 24th 2:00 – 2:20pm]] * **Format**: Talk (20 minutes) * **Difficulty**: Intermediate * **Track**: Cloud Native & Infrastructure * **Additional Tags**: Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, Crossplane, GitOps, Argo CD, Istio, Infrastructure as Code * **Experience**: Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliable production platforms. ==== Description: ==== Modern services depend on a complex orchestration of compute, databases, messaging, and observability tools that must work reliably across multiple environments. This session explores how to combine open-source Kubernetes operators—including Config Connector, Istio, Argo CD, and Crossplane—to build complete, isolated, self-service environments. The presenter will share practical lessons on using these controllers as building blocks for platform engineering, demonstrating how Crossplane compositions can transform low-level infrastructure resources into higher-level platform APIs. Attendees will learn how to provision cloud infrastructure, networking, and security controls automatically while enforcing organizational standards without sacrificing flexibility. **Target Audience:** * Platform engineers and SREs * Kubernetes users looking to scale infrastructure management * Software architects interested in cloud-native platform APIs
