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• Engage with the community to gather insights and contribute back to the framework
• Write a pitch that includes the expected efforts and success stories, but also the need for money
• Be prepared for change in the industry, including new vendors and changing narratives
• Manage change by shopping for alternatives, tackling claims, updating the narrative, and exploring partnerships

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• The team faced challenges with complex deployment topologies and managing fine-grained access for development teams
• They adopted the GitOps mindset by keeping configuration in a central git repository, relying on Carvel's package manager cap controller to create clusters, and using continuous reconciliation to prevent configuration drift
• They bundled their applications configuration, Kubernetes manifests, and dependencies in a single immutable OCI artifact using a Carvel tool called image package
• They used Carvel's yaml wrangling tool ytt to write overlays for third-party software
• The platform operations team was able to enable the development team to provision new clusters with common software in a matter of minutes and keep these clusters upgraded

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• VEBA allows for the creation of custom event-driven workflows using serverless functions.
• VEBA can be used to automate tasks such as sending notifications, creating tickets, and executing scripts.
• VEBA can be integrated with other tools such as Slack and Grafana.
• VEBA can handle large volumes of events and can be scaled to meet the needs of larger environments.
• VEBA can be used to correlate events from multiple layers of vSphere.
• VEBA can be used to build complex pipelines using stateful processing.

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• Reduce complexity without sacrificing flexibility
• Shift outcomes left without shifting the burden left
• Ensure consistency and security without giving up agility