Kubernetes Plane Aerodynamics: Breaking the Architectural... Vasu Chandrasekhara & Stefan Schimanski

This talk explores the architectural evolution of Kubernetes control, data, and work planes, introducing the kubelet controller pattern as a universal design principle. The presenters demonstrate how Hosted Control Planes enable recursive K8s deployments where control planes become workloads, and how KCP provides a pure API plane for scalable platform engineering. Ideal for platform engineers and Kubernetes architects building multi-cluster or multi-tenant systems.