From Tweet to BadIdea: Creating an Embeddable Kubernetes Style API Server - Jason DeTiberus

From Tweet to BadIdea: Creating an Embeddable Kubernetes Style API Server - Jason DeTiberus, Equinix Metal

Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) have made building Kubernetes-style declarative APIs easy. However they depend on an existing Kubernetes cluster, which can lead to difficult bootstrapping issues when building infrastructure management tooling. Would it be possible to remove the Kubernetes cluster dependency by piecing together the components that Kubernetes itself uses to implement the features needed to support CRDs? This talk explores the process of attempting to do just that through the process of building a minimal and embeddable Kubernetes style API Server with CRD support.