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• Captain Kubernetes provides observability and automation for Kubernetes deployments
• Use cases include preventing bad deployments during maintenance windows, supporting quality gates, and running evaluations after deployments
• Captain Kubernetes allows for monitoring and tracing of application deployments across different stages
• The Captain metric server brings observability directly into the cluster by exposing Kubernetes native metrics
• This allows for configuration of HPA, Argo Rollout, and Flux to use Kubernetes native metrics

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• The speaker shares her experience of contributing to Jenkins through GSoC
• The CDF community is welcoming and supportive of new contributors
• Goal setting, time commitment, and communication are important factors in successful contributions
• Imposter syndrome is a common challenge for mentees
• Anyone can be a mentor regardless of their level of expertise
• Matching the right project is crucial for successful contributions

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• GitOps is a set of principles and practices that decouples CI and CD, allowing for a more asynchronous task coordination.
• GitOps tools, such as Flux, Argo, and Carvel, have emerged to support the GitOps workflow.
• Stateful infrastructure is a reality in larger teams and systems, but GitOps can help by providing a desired state for complex computers like Kubernetes.
• The principles of GitOps have driven the development of the tools, resulting in similar workflows across different tool sets.
• The panel emphasizes the importance of understanding what is GitOps material and what is not when setting up infrastructure with tools like Terraform.

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• Argo CD is scalable but it's important to separate concerns to minimize blast radius
• Sig Scalability is a project aimed at improving the performance of Argo CD and the speaker encourages audience participation
• The speaker demonstrates the scalability of Argo CD by syncing all apps from the internet
• The speaker also discusses the Argo CD certification program

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• Development teams have been building their own cloud platforms for the past 4-5 years resulting in many similar platforms with some differences in details
• Increased need for network features external to people such as web application firewalls and DDOS protection led to the establishment of a platform team to build a common Kubernetes platform
• The main principle is to reduce developer cognitive load and provide a paved path for running applications in the cloud
• The team aims to use the Kubernetes API for everything and expose it with some kind of abstraction on top
• The team is building a custom Kubernetes controller from scratch using a cube builder and implementing the Gateway API for network configuration
• The Gateway API is a networking model that consists of several Kubernetes resources making it more flexible and role-oriented
• The team plans to use the Gateway API in production by the end of the year

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• The company faced challenges during hyper growth such as lack of alignment, manually managed resources, unknown resource dependencies and ownership, exploding budget, and lack of technical documentation.
• They implemented a solution using GitHub's methodology which emphasizes declarative infrastructure as code, versioning, immutability, automatic deployment pipelines, and continuous reconciliation.
• They also used Backstage, an open platform for building developer portals, to manage their resources in one location, write documentation easily, search for information, use automated software templates, and create self-contained plugins.
• The solution was auditable, declarative, had a single source of truth, was community-driven, self-serve, and provided visibility.
• An anecdote was given about how the GitHub solution detected a drift in a policy and automatically brought it back to its desired state.
• Tags: AI, Cybersecurity, DevOps, GitHub, Backstage, hyper growth, resource management, visualization, automation, documentation, self-serve, community-driven.

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• Separate workflows for infrastructure provisioning and application deployment lead to inefficiency, higher risk of errors, longer feedback loop, and unmanageable complexity
• A unified approach using Crossplane can increase iteration speed, quality, and time to market
• Putting everything in a single release is crucial for continuous deployment pipeline and reducing cognitive load on developers
• Examples of challenges include running post-deployment tests, making changes in configuration, and dealing with multiple repositories

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• GitOps has clear advantages over traditional CI/CD tools, but scaling observability and deployment automation can be challenging
• Open-source tools like ClusterAPI, ArgoCD, and Prometheus+Thanos can help manage and organize deployments
• The presentation proposes using immutable clusters treated as always stamped out of a template to address the fear of upgrading
• The ClusterAPI project can be used to declaratively express the idea of a cluster and interact with different cloud providers
• The v-cluster project can be used to create ephemeral clusters that live inside management clusters and can be used when provisioning time is a crucial parameter
• The presentation emphasizes the importance of monitoring ephemeral clusters and collecting metrics from them
• The use of open-source tools can automate the deployment of hundreds of clusters and applications automatically and securely