Building an Agile Platform in a Highly Regulated Industry
summary
If-Insurance builds an immutable GitOps platform on AKS using Flux v2, Kustomize, sealed-secrets and Linkerd for mTLS and network insight, plus Prometheus/Thanos for long-term metrics and Azure Policy/Gatekeeper for guardrails. Teams get a single dev/test/prod trio per namespace, automatic image updates, and centralized networking (Calico, WAF integration). Platform proves practical: around 10–15 teams onboarded so far and full cluster rebuilds complete in about 20 minutes to rebuild when rehearsing disaster recovery.
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chapters (34)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:47Jonas Samuelson
- 1:25Agenda
- 2:25About IF
- 3:15Technology Landscape
- 4:02Constraints
- 8:11Starting point
- 8:23Managing Kubernetes
- 9:07Onprem connectivity
- 10:44Environments
- 11:40Principles
- 12:25Maintenance
- 14:32Building the Platform
- 16:53Scaling
- 17:55Platform repo
- 18:24Platform teams
- 19:17Notification controller
- 19:50Teams channel
- 20:26Microservice architecture
- 21:27Branches strategy
- 22:14Customize strategy
- 23:12Immutable platform
- 24:31Pulses
- 25:19Service Mesh
- 27:14Network Insight
- 27:44Thanos
- 28:37Team Onboarding
- 30:01QA
- 30:45How did you deal with it
- 32:01How did you get your customers onboard
- 33:28How do you manage test data
- 34:48Central teams
- 37:15Other questions
- 40:37Adoption of the platform
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