Toward Full Adoption of GitOps and Best Practices at RingCentral

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Large enterprise story with concrete numbers and tools: migrating thousands of deployments across about 200 Kubernetes clusters and 3,000 developers using a monorepo + hermetic builds approach. Claims include faster delivery (10–20x compared to pipelines), five nines SLA, and auditability for compliance. Shows an implemented stack: Flux, Flagger for canary/progressive delivery, Kustomize, Terraform, Istio, Prometheus, Mozilla sops, GitLab caches, Litmus for chaos, and Testkube for tests, plus lessons on policy enforcement and scaling.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:33Security & Compliance
3. 11:22Scale!
4. 13:48Scaling on monorepo
5. 19:00Velocity
6. 26:25Enforcing reliability

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