The journey towards K8s at Deutsche Bahn
summary
Deutsche Bahn moves out of its own data centers to AWS and Azure and finishes the cloud migration by 2020, then buys OpenShift shared clusters as an entry platform while teams also get self‑service EKS/AKS via platform automation. The platform strategy centers on GitOps (Flux/Argo), evaluates Backstage for a portal, adopts Crossplane for cloud abstractions, and runs about 100–200 production apps on platform services; a 3,000‑person DevOps community drives inner‑source, but DB Navigator is not on Kubernetes yet.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to the journey
- 1:11Cloudification at Deutsche Bahn
- 6:39Transformation to agile culture
- 12:09Wild West of container platforms
- 15:43Order out of chaos with Kubernetes
- 20:19Key findings and future outlook
- 22:50Q&A session
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