This document discusses deploying Kubernetes clusters without most of the Kubernetes control plane for lightweight operations. It recaps how the Kubernetes control plane works, introduces the idea of using only certain minimal parts of it, and describes a prototype built that uses less of the control plane. The document concludes by hoping this inspires others to adopt their pattern or build an even more minimal version, and provides contact information for the presenters.

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2. Matt Turner
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@mt165
Liam White
Software Engineer
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@liamandrewwhite

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19. Airbnb: Istiocon 2021 Github Prototype

22. Conclusions
● Recapped how the control plane works
● Introduced the idea of using the minimum possible parts of it
● Showed a slightly less extreme version that we did actually build
● Hopefully this inspires you to take away our pattern
● Or build the totally extreme one - if you do, tweet us
● Thanks for coming

23. Airbnb: Istiocon 2021 Github Prototype
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Thanks!
Matt @mt165
Liam @liamandrewwhite