The Bricks That Make Us – How the LEGO Group Avoids 50 Mediocre Kubernetes Implementations
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 15:15· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room G·
summary
LEGO builds a single opinionated Novous container platform and enforces GitOps enforced for all apps, replacing one internal platform while aiming to avoid 50 mediocre Kubernetes implementations. A 14‑engineer platform team runs onboarding workshops that get teams from zero to production in under an hour, migrates about 50 user teams, and coexists with an estimated 200–300 clusters across the company. Adoption relies on support rotation and a rent‑an‑engineer program and it measurably increases uptake.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:54Avoiding 50 mediocre Kubernetes
- 5:41User autonomy and platform
- 8:29Building Novous container
- 13:26Replacing platforms and market share
- 15:30Onboarding workshops and engagement
- 16:53Internal events for visibility
- 17:37Connecting with users and overpromising
- 19:50Support rotation and enablement
- 21:38Rent an engineer program
- 22:43Reducing meetings with empowered teams
- 23:48Sell your platform
- 24:33Keep users close
- 25:42Q&A
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