Crossplane lets you automate creation of infrastructure using Kubernetes APIs. Daniel Mangum is a Crossplane maintainer working at its creator Upbound, a TL of Kubernetes SIG Release, and a YouTube streaming star. He chats about tech with host Craig Box, who is helped this week by returning guest Ken Massada from GKE’s Support team.

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Chatter of the week

News of the week

Microsoft Ignite news:
Helm second security audit
Meet Brigade v2
Harbor 2.2 and roadmap
Google Summer of Code 2021
KubeCon EU 2021 schedule launched and the selection process explained
Issue #100000 on kubernetes/kubernetes

Links from the interview

Visual Basic for Applications
NYT article on retro computing
Compiler Explorer
Rich Code for Tiny Computers by Jason Turner
Upbound
- Episode 36, with Jared Watts
Crossplane
- Crossplane vs Terraform blog by Nic Cope
- Compositions and XRDs
- Crossplane vs Cloud Infrastructure Add-ons
- TBS episode with Matt Moore of Knative
- Helm provider
- July 2020: Crossplane joins the CNCF
  - LFX mentorship program
- Dec 2020: v1.0
- Mar 2021: v1.1
Kubernetes SIG Release
doc.crds.dev
Upcoming KubeCon talk: FPGK8s: Consumer-Grade FPGAs on Kubernetes
- Cutting GTA loading times by 70% and how YAML parsing can become quadratic
Daniel’s current hirsuteness
The Binding Status
Flake-Finder Fridays
Daniel Mangum on Twitter and on the web

Crossplane, with Daniel Mangum

Kubernetes Podcast from Google