Control Plane Day with Crossplane, presented by Upbound

Sep 19, 2023, 3:00 – 5:00 PM (UTC)

Virtual event

About this event

This event has concluded. The recordings are live on YouTube. 🎉 Join the Crossplane Slack to keep in touch about the project and future events.
Kubernetes Control Plane Liftoff 🛫Crossplane is the cloud native control plane framework. With more than 9,000 people in the Slack community and 7,000+ GitHub stars, it has become a thriving open source community of technologists. Join the community for a live online event featuring technical talks and networking with peers and project maintainers building platforms powered by Crossplane. At its five-year mark, get an update on what's happening with the project, understand new strategies for building with Crossplane, and gain the know-how to take your cloud control plane expertise to the next level.
SpeakersWe’re excited to feature Kelsey Hightower, Rachel Stephens of RedMonk, Viktor Farcic of Upbound, Bassam Tabbara of Upbound, Christina Andonov of AWS, Tobias Brunner of VSHN, Marco Massenzio of Cruise, and more! Check out our full lineup of speakers (subject to change).
Who should attend?The event is single-track, hosted online, and free to attend. Any level of experience with Crossplane is encouraged to join us! You see a range of talks from broader cloud-native industry perspectives to deeper, intermediate levels of technical experience with the project. 
Engage with the communityOnce registered, join the dedicated Crossplane Slack channel for updates and to submit questions for the Crossplane maintainers and experts panel.

Speakers

Viktor Farcic

Upbound

Developer Advocate & CNCF Ambassador

Bassam Tabbara

Upbound

founder and CEO

Kelsey Hightower

Software Engineer and Developer Advocate

Rachel Stephens

RedMonk

Senior Industry Analyst

Marco Massenzio

Cruise

Principal Engineer

Jared Watts

Upbound

founding engineer, Crossplane co-creator/maintainer

Christina Andonov

AWS

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect

Bob Haddleton

Nokia

Director of R&D Innovation, Advanced Technology Studio, CNS Core Networks, and Crossplane community maintainer

Pete Lumbis

Upbound

Principal Documentation Engineer

Tobias Brunner

VSHN - The DevOps Company

CTO and Product Manager

Ezgi Demirel

Upbound

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

Nic Cope

Upbound

Principal Architect

When

Tuesday, September 19, 2023
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (UTC)

Agenda

3:00 PM	Opening Remarks	Host Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, kicks off the event.
3:05 PM	State of Crossplane	Bassam Tabbara, creator of Crossplane and founder/CEO of Upbound, shares an overview of Crossplane at 5 years and gives a glimpse of the future ahead.
3:20 PM	Fireside Chat: Declarative configuration: Past, present, and future	Featuring Kelsey Hightower, Viktor Farcic, and Rachel Stephens.
3:45 PM	Self-Driving Cloud Infrastructure with Crossplane	Cruise operates the most advanced fleet of self-driving cars across several metro areas in the US, with plans to expand rapidly across the country and internationally: with rapid growth in fleet size and geographic footprint comes an unprecedented demand for safety, scale and availability which in turn requires our Cloud resources to be deployed across multiple Regions, Stacks and Environments. We have used Crossplane to abstract the most commonly used set of Cloud resources (including Spanner, Redis, PubSub, and others) so that we can meet complex (and changing) requirements from our Service teams with only a few lines of YAML, complementing our Kubernetes-based PaaS infrastructure. This talk is presented by Marco Massenzio, principal engineer at Cruise.
4:00 PM	Getting Started with Troubleshooting and Observability in Crossplane	In this talk, we'll focus on effective techniques for troubleshooting Crossplane nested composite resources. Additionally, we'll cover essential observability using Prometheus metrics, empowering you to manage Crossplane in production with confidence. This talk is presented by Christina Andonov, a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS where she guides organizations through the implementation of Internal Developer Platforms.
4:15 PM	Composition Functions in Production	VSHN AG is using Crossplane's Composition Functions in production since its release. In this talk, Tobias Brunner, CTO of VSHN AG, will explain what Composition Functions are and how are used to power crucial parts of the VSHN Application Catalog (AppCat). He will also introduce VSHNs custom Open-Source gRPC server which powers the execution of Composition Functions. In this talk, you'll learn how to leverage Composition Functions to spice up your Compositions. This talk is presented by Tobias Brunner, CTO, Product Manager and Partner at VSHN.
4:30 PM	Q&A with the maintainers.	What do you want to know about Crossplane? The project maintainers and experts, including Jared Watts, Bob Haddleton, Nic Cope, and Ezgi Demirel will take audience questions and discuss them live. Crossplane docs expert Pete Lumbis will moderate this Q&A.
4:55 PM	Wrap up	Host Viktor Farcic, Developer Advocate at Upbound, wraps up the event.

Organizers

Jared Watts

Upbound

Crossplane Maintainer

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Stefanie Wills

Organizer

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Control Plane Day with Crossplane, presented by Upbound

About this event

This event has concluded. The recordings are live on YouTube. 🎉

Join the Crossplane Slack to keep in touch about the project and future events.

Kubernetes Control Plane Liftoff 🛫

Speakers

Who should attend?

Engage with the community

Speakers

Viktor Farcic

Bassam Tabbara

Kelsey Hightower

Rachel Stephens

Marco Massenzio

Jared Watts

Christina Andonov

Bob Haddleton

Pete Lumbis

Tobias Brunner

Ezgi Demirel

Nic Cope

When

Agenda

Organizers

Jared Watts

Stefanie Wills

Titanium

Upbound