Building K8s on AWS & Enabling Developers to Deliver. What to Do Better - Greg Sansom & Fahad Tariq
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Built a Terraform-first AWS platform layered with EKS clusters and common services, delivered to multiple environments and into integration testing in about eight weeks; work touches 143 git repositories and ~16,000 commits from 54 engineers. Key specifics: use Terraform, EKS, GitLab CI (moved from Docker to shell executors to share cache and make pipelines 300% faster), local dev stack with jib + Skaffold + minikube, stubs for SonarQube, and an RDS terraform module pattern that spawned five DBs after a developer showcase. Lessons: DevOps inception, shared ownership, and shipping developer-friendly templates.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 4:13Getting the foundation right
- 8:03DevOps inception
- 13:22Shared Ownership
- 20:30Developer Experience
- 25:44Summary
- 26:51Outro
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