Episode 133: Crossplane - A Kubernetes Control Plane to Roll Your Own PaaS

The ideal state of a cloud native shop is to run a development and
deployment pipeline that can seamlessly move applications from the
developer’s laptop to the data center (or the edge) without any
manual intervention. And while there are many tools available to
facilitate such automation — Helm, Operators, CI/CD toolchains,
GitOps architectures, Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as
Terraform — all too often edge cases and exceptions still require
personal attention, bringing DevOps pipelines to a halt. The
missing pieces of the puzzles are a control plane and a unified
application model for the control plane to run upon, asserted Phil
Prasek, a principal product manager at Upbound, in this latest
episode of The New Stack Context podcast. Prasek envisions a time
when organizations can build their own customized set of platform
services, where developers can draw from a self-serve portal the
building blocks they need — be they containerized applications or
third party cloud services, and have the resulting app run
uniformly in multiple environments. “Within an enterprise control
plane, you can basically have your own abstractions, and then you
can publish them,” Prasek said. TNS Editorial and Marketing
Director Libby Clark hosts this episode, with the help of TNS
Senior Editor Richard MacManus, and TNS Managing Editor Joab
Jackson.