Introduction to Crossplane | Muvaffak Onuş & Hasan Türken

Crossplane is an open source Kubernetes add-on that transforms your cluster into a universal control plane. Crossplane enables platform teams to assemble infrastructure from multiple vendors, and expose higher level self-service APIs for application teams to consume, without having to write any code.

Hasan Türken

Principal Software Engineer, Upbound

Hasan Türken is a software engineer specialized in Kubernetes. As a certified Kubernetes administrator (CKA) and Security specialist (CKS), he actively participated in containerization and Kubernetes transformation of distributed enterprise applications, guided teams for cloud native application development, built and automated SaaS solutions with Kubernetes controllers. After being fascinated by the power of Kubernetes Control plane and following his passion, he found himself at Upbound, the company behind Crossplane, where he is enjoying opportunities that encourage him to leverage the power of Kubernetes control plane further. He is a big fan of Golang, open source software, automating stuff and everything related to Kubernetes.

Muvaffak Onus

Staff Software Engineer, Upbound

Muvaffak is a maintainer in Crossplane, an incubating CNCF project, where he led several big initiatives in the last couple of years to enable control plane architectures in cloud native ecosystem. Before Crossplane, he built the SaaS backend of SAP Data Intelligence platform using Kubernetes controllers.