What Happened to the Service Catalog?

This talk explores the rise and fall of the Kubernetes Service Catalog project, which aimed to simplify the consumption of external cloud services within Kubernetes workloads. It compares the Service Catalog model with its successors, operators and Crossplane, examining the advantages and limitations of each approach. The discussion delves into how Kubernetes users can best consume cloud services and touches upon potential future directions for managing external services within the cloud-native ecosystem.