CRDs, Extensibility and API Machinery, with Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith is co-Chair and co-TL of SIG API Machinery, as well as TL of the corresponding Google team. Daniel has been working on Kubernetes since before it was open sourced, and is one of the top overall contributors to the codebase. He joins Adam and Craig to discuss CRDs and extensibility.

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Chatter of the week

• Old Man's Journey
• Rocketman
  • Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
• Aladdin (2019)
• Aladdin (1992)

News of the week

• Kubevirt joins the CNCF
• KubeCon San Diego Contributor Summit
• ServiceMeshCon 2019 schedule announced
• GKE Intranode Visibility
• #KUBE100; hosted k3s from Civo
  • k8s vs k3s by Andy Jeffries
• Docker: Designing your first application on Kubernetes
• Docker raising funds
• IBM launches Apache CouchDB operator
• 90% of all PaaS and SaaS on IBM Cloud is on Kubernetes
• Kubecost: Requests and Limits by Webb Brown
• Kubeadvisor 1.0 from Magalix
• Kubernetes Liveness Probes are Dangerous! by Henning Jacobs

Links from the interview

• DevStats says Daniel is number 2 or number 3 contributor to Kubernetes, in either case just behind Tim Hockin from Episode 41
  • Either way, someone is wrong on the Internet!
• Carina star constellation and having to rename it from that
• The Kubernetes API
• API Machinery
• First proposal for API plugins - issue 991!
• Third party resources (deprecated in 1.7)
• Operator packaging
• Custom Resources
• Moving TPRs to CRDs by Nikhita Raghunath
• API Aggregator
• Extension via webhooks
• 1.15 release blog talks about CRD extensibility
• Daniel's KubeCon talks:
  • Life of an API Request (slides)
  • The hand-drawn trilogy:
    • Kubernetes-Style APIs of the Future (slides)
    • A Vision For API Machinery: Coming to Terms with the Platform We Built (slides)
    • The Kubernetes Control Plane for Busy People Who Like Pictures (slides)
• The Nut That Ties Everything Together
• Daniel Smith on Twitter