Hilti Group approach for mastering EKS multi-cluster orchestration(DOP201)
summary
Hilti standardizes multi-cluster EKS with a hub‑and‑spoke GitOps model that deploys Kubernetes through Kubernetes, using Crossplane to provision VPCs and EKS, Flux for reconciliation, and Karpenter for node scaling. Results: cluster provisioning is about 90% faster (10x), fleet upgrades take 85% less engineering time, enabling developer self‑service 21x faster for new AWS services, and a ~20% AWS cost reduction via Graviton and spot instances.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:40About Hilti Group
- 3:33System Solutions
- 4:32Construction Software
- 8:08ProductCentric Approach
- 10:00Key Challenges
- 12:48Design Principles
- 16:44Existing Solutions
- 20:21Goals
- 24:52Solution
- 29:10Overall solution
- 30:29Hub and Spoke model
- 33:08Carpenter
- 34:59Cluster upgrades
- 38:38Results
- 40:41Outro
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