Daniel Smith is co-Chair and co-TL of SIG API Machinery, as well as TL of the corresponding Google team. Daniel has been working on Kubernetes since before it was open sourced, and is one of the top overall contributors to the codebase. He joins Adam and Craig to discuss CRDs and extensibility.

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DevStats says Daniel is number 2 or number 3 contributor to Kubernetes, in either case just behind Tim Hockin from Episode 41
- Either way, someone is wrong on the Internet!
Carina star constellation and having to rename it from that
The Kubernetes API
API Machinery
First proposal for API plugins - issue 991!
Third party resources (deprecated in 1.7)
Operator packaging
Custom Resources
Moving TPRs to CRDs by Nikhita Raghunath
API Aggregator
Extension via webhooks
1.15 release blog talks about CRD extensibility
Daniel’s KubeCon talks:
- Life of an API Request (slides)
- The hand-drawn trilogy:
The Nut That Ties Everything Together
Daniel Smith on Twitter

CRDs, Extensibility and API Machinery, with Daniel Smith

Kubernetes Podcast from Google

CRDs, Extensibility and API Machinery, with Daniel Smith