Arlon: Unified and Scalable Deployment of Kubernetes Clusters, Configurations and Applications

Watch a 28-minute conference talk exploring Arlon, an open source project that unifies Kubernetes cluster deployment, configurations, and applications through a single declarative API. Learn how Arlon leverages infrastructure APIs and GitOps principles, allowing users to define cluster templates using Cluster API or Crossplane manifests and group commonly used apps and settings via "profiles." Discover how these manifests and profiles combine to enable one-step deployment of multiple clusters with specified configurations. Explore solutions to three key challenges: unifying infrastructure and app definitions, managing large-scale deployments and updates, and standardizing add-ons for production-ready clusters. Follow along as speaker Bich Le explains Arlon's architecture and demonstrates its capabilities in administering large-scale cluster fleets and applications across multiple datacenters and geographical locations.