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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