Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

Authors: Muvaffak Onus, Sidarta Aguiar de Oliveira

2022-10-27

The presentation discusses the creation of an internal developer platform to provide autonomy to developers and make their day-to-day tasks easier.

• The platform is a self-service portal that provides tools, templates, utilities, and automation to bring infrastructure architecture infosex standards to the teams.
• Developers can choose from a variety of templates, including serverless coding, front-end applications, and Docker.
• The platform integrates with various tools, including New Relic, Sonar Cube, and Argo CD.
• The infrastructure is provisioned using cross-plane and AWS.
• The platform provides developers with autonomy, reduces delivery time, and ensures security and monitoring standards.
• The platform has resulted in 100 AWS accounts managed by the platform, 109 applications, 13 templates, and 195 resources.
• The platform has been successful in providing developers with the autonomy they need and making their day-to-day tasks easier.

Conference:  KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021

Authors: Thorsten Jakoby, Matthias Haeussler

2021-10-15

Kubernetes is often referred to as Container as a Service (CaaS) and is placed as an abstraction layer between the cloud service model Infrastructure and Platform as a Service (IaaS and PaaS). While from a developer perspective it focusses to appear rather as a PaaS model, from a financial perspective the costs incur from the IaaS model. The costs incur from the runtime of the assigned virtual machines - whether they are well utilized or not - as opposed to paying for the runtime of the containers. This is one of many adoption insights in terms of "hidden costs". In this talk Matthias and Thorsten describe their experience about those costs based on the experience of adopting CaaS in several client scenarios. In most cases it was set-up to achieve a "PaaS-like" self-service developer experience. This covers 5+ years of lesson's learned in on- and off-prem setups, GitOps, security, automation, application deployment, legacy integration, observability and skill enablement.