Open Source at Scale Building Operation in a large company
summary
Builds operation support teams for large enterprises, running a global Kubernetes platform and backing CI/CD with Jenkins or GitLab plus GitHub and Artifactory. Keeps a small core platform team (seven engineers) and ~30 delivery/onboarding engineers to avoid Saturday 4 a.m. wakeups and provide 24/7 support. Documents runbooks, enforces vendor subscriptions (OpenShift/Pivotal) for supported upgrades, and warns that underfunded POCs with one maintainer routinely fail to reach production without training and front-line advisory.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 3:15Legacy challenges in big companies
- 6:27Open source technology maturity
- 8:14Strength of open source communities
- 10:01Business maturity in open source
- 11:0624/7 platform management requirements
- 12:38POC to production lifecycle
- 14:28Common open source project failures
- 16:34Documentation and support realities
- 17:36Open source vs corporate culture
- 18:19Building a sustainable tech stack
- 20:06Security and maintenance in production
- 21:30Training and expert support
- 22:13DevOps pipeline best practices
- 23:22Closing remarks and Q&A
