<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

Basically, my 5mo pup has started barking when he wants to get out of his crate or he's not happy being in there. I really don't want to encourage this behavior as I can see it escalating if he thinks that gets him what he wants.

When he barks at night for bedtime, I ignore him and he'll eventually settle down, whine, then curl up to sleep. That's fine. But he continues to do it and I think that's because of the following.

In the morning I get up around 6:30am-6:45am to walk him, feed him, etc. He has a great internal clock (I joke with my friends that I no longer need an alarm clock cause I can always count on Apollo - my puppy - to wake me up), and he'll start barking a few minutes before it's time for him to come out. The problem is, he continues to bark, and I'm afraid I encourage it cause I let him out because that's when I need to tend to him in order to get to work on time (I don't have time to ignore him until he settles down). I've tried to wake up before he does to let him out, but as soon as he sees me getting out of bed, he immediately will start barking (sometimes whining) cause he knows I'm getting ready to go and he wants to be let out so I walk him and feed him.

Any tips??
I hope this makes sense.

Bascially,
<bot>: He barks in the morning when I'm about to let him out of the crate, and I'm afraid that's encourage the bad barking behavior for whenever he's in the crate and wants out.