Oxide Integrations: Empowering Platform Teams and Developers with Oxide Computer

Matthew Sanabria from Oxide Computer Company discusses integrations that empower platform teams and developers to build on top of the Oxide platform. As Oxide is API-driven, these integrations are crucial for engineering teams needing to work at scale. Sanabria covers three platform integrations: a Go SDK, a Terraform provider, and a Packer plugin, demonstrating how each allows developers to interact with and manage resources on Oxide in a familiar way. The Go SDK offers programmatic access to the Oxide rack, while the Terraform provider enables state management for resources, and the Packer plugin allows the creation of custom images with baked-in application logic.

The presentation then shifts focus to Kubernetes integrations, which are vital for teams standardizing on Kubernetes. Oxide provides integrations for deploying and managing Kubernetes on its infrastructure, including a Cloud Controller Manager, a Rancher node driver, and an Omni infrastructure provider. The Cloud Controller Manager manages node health, load balancing, and routes, providing a Kubernetes-native integration. The Rancher node driver enables users to create Kubernetes clusters on Oxide via the Rancher UI, and the Omni infrastructure provider integrates with Talos Linux, an immutable Linux operating system designed for Kubernetes nodes.

Sanabria demonstrates these Kubernetes integrations in action, showing how the Cloud Controller Manager ensures node health and prevents cascading failures, how the Rancher node driver simplifies cluster creation, and how the Omni infrastructure provider automates the deployment of Talos Linux nodes on Oxide. These integrations provide flexibility for running Kubernetes on Oxide and allow future enhancements, such as load balancers and other controllers, to be seamlessly integrated with Kubernetes.