Tim Goodwin, a graduate student at the University of California Santa Cruz has been thinking a lot about the future of Kubernetes. And he sees a world beyond clusters, where Kubernetes can be a universal control plane for just about anything.
Making this possible is the magic of controllers, which are built on the Kubernetes controller runtime. The ability to compose controllers — and to yoke them together — is what gives Kubernetes a lot of its power,
Controllers, however, are really difficult to manage and debug. So Goodwin created a…