Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cl... Cat Morris & Jake Klein
Cat Morris, Jake Klein
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
In their KubeCon EU talk, "Building a Platform Framework: Lessons Learned From Developing a Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Operator," Cat Morris and Jake Klein from Centasto delve into the complex journey of developing **Kredics**, an open-source platform framework designed to simplify multi-cluster Kubernetes management. The speakers, drawing from their extensive experience in platform engineering and product development, articulate the escalating challenges faced by organizations as their infrastructure footprints grow from single Kubernetes clusters to sprawling, multi-cloud, multi-region, and even on-premise environments. They highlight how this increasing complexity often leads to operational overhead, inconsistent deployments, and a bottleneck for application development teams.
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Dr. Morris and Klein deliver a technically robust and candid account of building Kredics, an open-source platform framework for multi-cluster Kubernetes. Their deep dive into "Promises" as an abstraction layer, coupled with a generalized GitOps model for orchestration and innovative bidirectional status reporting, offers significant value. The talk provides actionable insights for platform engineers grappling with scaling complex cloud-native environments, highlighting practical lessons from real-world development without resorting to marketing fluff.