This document discusses building platforms for cloud native applications on Kubernetes. It begins by introducing the speaker, Mauricio Salatino, and his background working with CNCF projects. It then outlines the topics that will be covered, including continuous delivery, platform engineering, building and deploying cloud native applications, multi-cloud infrastructure, and measuring platform performance. It also provides an initial table of contents for a book on platform engineering for Kubernetes. Examples of platform components like provisioning databases and multi-cloud resources are discussed. Finally, the document concludes with two demo examples of platforms that simplify consuming cloud resources for developers.

1. Mauricio Salatino - @Salaboy
OSS Software Engineer @ Diagrid.io
Building DevExp for the Cloud

2. Agenda
- You should never write a book!
- Try to not talk for too long about Platform Engineering, Continuous
Delivery and CNCF Projects
- Demos

3. • Mauricio Salatino -> Also known as @Salaboy
• I work for @Diagrid and @LearnK8s instructor
○ CNCF project Dapr(https://dapr.io)
○ Steering committee member for the Knative
Project (https://knative.dev)
○ Co-Lead Knative Functions Working Group
• I used to work for Red Hat and VMware building
tools for developers
Who I am?

4. • Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes
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I am writing a book

5. • Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes
• Platform Engineering for Kubernetes
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I am writring a book

6. • Platform Engineering for Kubernetes
○ When and why do we need platforms?
○ Challenges of Cloud Native Applications (Helm, Kustomize, monitoring, open
telemetry, tracing, dashboards, etc)
○ Building/Deploying Cloud-Native Applications (Tekton, Dagger, GitHub actions,
ArgoCD, CNCF Buildpacks, etc.)
○ Multi-Cloud Application Infrastructure (Crossplane, Terraform, Pulumi, CDK8s, etc.)
○ Building a platform on top of Kubernetes (Crossplane, Kratix)
○ Developer Experience
■ Release Strategies (Knative Serving, Argo Rollouts, Service Meshes)
■ Connecting to services (Dapr, Knative Functions and Libraries)
■ Event-driven system to system integrations (Cloud Events, Knative Eventing,
Dapr Pub/Sub, EventsBridge, EventArc, etc)
○ Measuring our Platforms performance using DORA (CDEvents, Four Keys)
Book ToC (Table of Content)

7. • Platform Engineering for Kubernetes
○ When and why do we need platforms?
○ Challenges of Cloud Native Applications
○ Building/Deploying Cloud-Native Applications
○ Multi-Cloud Application Infrastructure
○ Building a platform on top of Kubernetes
○ Developer Experience
■ Release Strategies
■ Connecting to services
■ Event-driven system to system integrations
○ Measuring our Platforms performance using DORA
Book ToC (Table of Content)

8. • Cloud Provider Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) provide us with:
○ Tons of services to choose from
○ Each service have
■ Dashboards
■ API-First
■ CLIs (Command Line Interface tools)
Platforms are not new

9. • Amazon Web Services 🤔
• Microsoft Azure (bright blue in colour like a cloudless sky.) 󰣻
• Google Cloud Platform 👍
Weird note on Cloud Providers name

10. • Your teams will need to learn Cloud Provider specific tooling
• You need to hire experts on the Cloud Provider that you choose
• Cloud Provider lock-in
• You are still responsible of defining which services to use, how to
combine them and how to expose them to your teams
Some Challenges

12. CNCF Landscape

13. Deciding which projects to use for your business
becomes a complex task.

14. You need to start thinking about Platforms and
Platform Engineering internally

15. Platform Engineering and Continuous Delivery
- What we build is an Internal Platform
- That encodes all the organization’s choices and practices
- Why we build it to enable teams to deliver software in a
continuous fashion
- The platform provide golden paths to production
- How we build it with a Platform Engineering team
- That treat development teams as customers to keep improving the
platform

16. Platform Engineering

17. Example Platform

18. Example Platform

19. Example Platform

20. Provision Databases on Demand

21. Provisioning Multi-Cloud Resources
https://www.crossplane.io/

22. How does this look in
practice?
DEMO #1 🥳
https://github.com/salaboy/from-monolith-to-k8s/tree/main/platform/crossplane-dapr

23. Consuming Cloud Resources is a pain

24. Consuming Multi-Cloud Resources
https://dapr.io/

25. Let’s make it easier for
Developers!
DEMO #2 🥳
https://github.com/salaboy/from-monolith-to-k8s/tree/main/platform/crossplane-dapr

26. Consuming Cloud Resources without the pain

27. Platform Engineer Developer
Happier devs consuming Multi-Cloud resources!

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Thank you! Questions? -> @Salaboy