Keynote: Enabling World Class Engineering with Kubernetes at Xero - Jono Cooper, Engineer, Xero
summary
Xero runs Kubernetes on AWS to consolidate varied team tooling and empower ~1,200 developers, building a cloud-native platform with a four-person platform team. Core moves: a generic Helm chart, a browser deployment wizard that outputs pipelines, and Open Policy Agent as a validating webhook that returns friendly errors. Result: over 95% of cluster deployments use the generic Helm charts, self-service namespace/role provisioning, automated ticket handling, and an ongoing migration with stateful Windows monoliths still pending.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Xero mission
- 1:26Cloud native challenges
- 3:08Platform as product
- 4:10Simplifying with Helm
- 5:13Self-service deployment
- 6:20Reducing toil with self-service
- 6:40Enforcing policies with OPA
- 7:46Documentation importance
- 8:47Kubernetes growth
- 9:53Key takeaways
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