Christopher Haar
Christopher is Software Engineer for upbound on open source software. He is a regular contributor to open source and a maintainer for providers in crossplane eco-system. He has many years’ experience in the creation of enterprise infrastructure for different industries, from Telco&Railway to Cloud.
Software Engineer
Session
As platform teams evolve, platforms extend beyond infrastructure to application services, cloud resource management, and middleware orchestration. Managing these distributed components across clusters and teams demands a unified, scalable approach. This session shows how to manage infrastructure, tenants, and application services entirely through Kubernetes by building a modular, multi-tenant, multi-control-plane platform. Attendees will learn to extend the Kubernetes API with Control Planes for distributed, tenant-aware infrastructure management. We’ll explore CNCF projects to create abstractions and automation, enabling platform teams to offer consistent services and self-service capabilities. Topics include multi-tenancy with in- and out-of-cluster isolation, unified APIs for control-plane orchestration, and avoiding common pitfalls in multi-control-plane management. By the end, attendees will have a roadmap for scalable platforms supporting centralized and tenant-managed services.