Sponsored Session: AWS & Weaveworks - Enable Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes with GitOps, EKS, and EKS

The presentation demonstrates a simple build pipeline for promotion from development to production using EKS and EKSD, with a focus on GitOps and Kubernetes.

• GitOps is a declarative approach to managing Kubernetes clusters that uses Git to keep a versioned state of everything in the cluster.
• Weave Kubernetes Platform is a GitOps-enabled platform that packages standard cluster components and provides isolation to applications through the use of workspaces.
• To promote containers from the development environment to the production environment, the developer issues a pull request that is reviewed and merged.
• Canary deployment is used to monitor traffic and shift it gradually from old pods to new pods.
• LinkerD is used as a service mesh to monitor traffic and provide built-in Grafana dashboards.

The developer changes the background color of an application from green to blue, and the change is automatically deployed to the development cluster using Flux. The developer then creates a pull request to deploy the change to the production cluster, where a canary deployment is used to gradually shift traffic from old pods to new pods. LinkerD is used to monitor the traffic and provide visual feedback through Grafana dashboards.

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