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Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier - Vasu Chandrasekhara, NeoNephos & Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIA
We first trace the evolution of the "aerodynamics" of the K8s data, control, and work planes. As we dissect the architectural building blocks and controller archetypes of K8s, we discover the kubelet controller pattern as an universal design principle, with which we easily explain the unfolding of K8s Inception with Hosted Control Planes (HCP), where any control plane becomes a recursive workload in K8s itself.
Armed with these concepts we come to the ultimate, supersonic plane: KCP, the pure data and API plane.
Learn how to mentally decouple K8s from its underlying infrastructure and move toward a truly scalable, declarative API-first future. The next evolution in cloud-native. With KCP, and by treating KRM as a universal interface, we will show how you can benefit from the same pattern used to manage a single pod, to engineer global-scale platforms.
At each architecture evolution step, we accompany a demo and use case: from single clusters, vClusters, clusters with HCP, and KCP.
Don't miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026) Salt Lake City, United States (Nov 9–12, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at kubecon.io
Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural Sound Barrier - Vasu Chandrasekhara, NeoNephos & Stefan Schimanski, NVIDIA
We first trace the evolution of the "aerodynamics" of the K8s data, control, and work planes. As we dissect the architectural building blocks and controller archetypes of K8s, we discover the kubelet controller pattern as an universal design principle, with which we easily explain the unfolding of K8s Inception with Hosted Control Planes (HCP), where any control plane becomes a recursive workload in K8s itself.
Armed with these concepts we come to the ultimate, supersonic plane: KCP, the pure data and API plane.
Learn how to mentally decouple K8s from its underlying infrastructure and move toward a truly scalable, declarative API-first future. The next evolution in cloud-native. With KCP, and by treating KRM as a universal interface, we will show how you can benefit from the same pattern used to manage a single pod, to engineer global-scale platforms.
At each architecture evolution step, we accompany a demo and use case: from single clusters, vClusters, clusters with HCP, and KCP.
