Dario Tranchitella - The Swiss Army Knife stack for Multi Cluster Kubernetes

"The mighty Swiss Army Knife is the most iconic Swiss product, and every child dreamed of having one: it encapsulates a wide range of capabilities, each designed for a specific purpose, yet built to work seamlessly together. Building a platform to manage multi-tenant, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments follows the same philosophy: a modern Kubernetes cluster manager may appear as a unified product, but under the hood, it is the result of carefully assembling multiple technologies, each solving a distinct problem: cluster lifecycle management, control plane orchestration, policy enforcement, and workload configuration across distributed environments. This talk explores my highly opinionated stack based on the must-have building blocks to design and implement such a platform: it's not just a matter of flavour, I'll share the reasoning behind key architectural and technological choices."