Universal Control Planes for Kubernetes and Beyond

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In this episode of KubernetesBytes, Bhavin and Ryan interview Viktor Farcic, a Developer Advocate from Upbound, the company behind Crossplane. Crossplane extends Kubernetes into becoming a universal control plane for more than what runs in Kubernetes, however, you get to manage everything in a Kubernetes-native way. Hear what Viktor has to say about Crossplane and what hes been up to.   01:35 Introduction  08:29 Cloud Native News  16:15 Crossplane with Viktor Cloud Native News  https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/series-b-funding   https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/introducing-honeycomb-for-kubernetes?hss_channel=lcp-12957659  https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/microsoft-launches-radius-an-open-source-application-platform-for-the-cloud/  https://docs.radapp.io/  https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/urgent-new-security-flaws-discovered-in.html  https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/news/366557752/CloudCasa-now-offers-self-hosted-Kubernetes-backup-service  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kubecost-launches-cloud-cost-optimization-080000850.html   Links  https://youtube.com/@UCfz8x0lVzJpb_dgWm9kPVrw https://docs.crossplane.io/  https://www.crossplane.io/community

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In this episode of KubernetesBytes, Bhavin and Ryan interview Viktor Farcic, a Developer Advocate from Upbound, the company behind Crossplane. Crossplane extends Kubernetes into becoming a universal control plane for more than what runs in Kubernetes, however, you get to manage everything in a Kubernetes-native way. Hear what Viktor has to say about Crossplane and what hes been up to. * 01:35 Introduction * 08:29 Cloud Native News * 16:15 Crossplane with Viktor Cloud Native News * https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/series-b-funding * https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/introducing-honeycomb-for-kubernetes?hss_channel=lcp-12957659 * https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/18/microsoft-launches-radius-an-open-source-application-platform-for-the-cloud/ * https://docs.radapp.io/ * https://thehackernews.com/2023/10/urgent-new-security-flaws-discovered-in.html * https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/news/366557752/CloudCasa-now-offers-self-hosted-Kubernetes-backup-service * https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kubecost-launches-cloud-cost-optimization-080000850.html Links * https://youtube.com/@UCfz8x0lVzJpb_dgWm9kPVrw * https://docs.crossplane.io/ * https://www.crossplane.io/community

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