2025-03-31 –, The Waterloo
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.
This talk provides a blueprint for platform engineers to design and manage distributed Kubernetes platforms with multi-tenancy and multi-control-plane capabilities. Leveraging CNCF projects from different areas bridges the gap between infrastructure management and application services by unifying APIs across clusters and tenants.
Key benefits:
Best Practices: Real-world insights into modular platform design and managing distributed components.
Future-Ready Platforms: A way to converge central platform services and tenant-managed services into a unified, developer-friendly experience.
This session will inspire teams to rethink platform architecture, moving towards modular, scalable, and future-proof platforms that align with the complexities of modern cloud-native ecosystems.
Carlos Mestre del Pino is a cloud solution architect at Microsoft in Amsterdam. With over three years of Kubernetes experience, he has managed large Kubernetes environments and is now supporting Azure's customers on their Kubernetes and platform building journey.
Member of the organizing team for KCD Netherlands, he is a community oriented person which loves sharing his knowledge and passion for technology, as he has previously done such as Cloud Native Rejekts in Paris and KCD Denmark 2024.
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.