More Power, Less Pain: Building an Internal Platform with CNCF Tools
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual · on Thursday, 2020-11-19· at 13:58· Intrado Virtual Event Platform,·
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GoSpotCheck builds an internal PaaS with no dedicated platform team, composing Buildpacks, Helm, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Envoy/Linkerd service mesh and gRPC so developers do local work inside the cluster. A 2.2-person ops group and ~40 engineers spend ~2.5 years iterating; result cuts Dockerfiles and 17 YAML files to simple Helm values, delivers vendor-backed observability (Prometheus/OpenTelemetry), one-command Linkerd installs, and hits the first SLO alert—developer experience measurably smoother.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:51$(whoami)
- 2:19Migration
- 2:37Ecosystem
- 3:01Struggle
- 5:28Simplicity/Limits
- 5:49Power/Complexity
- 6:43Happy Medium
- 7:00Observability
- 7:59Mesh/Ingress
- 9:04Build/Deploy
- 10:03Market
- 10:57Product
- 12:02Harness Conway's Law
- 13:38Coming Together
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