Beyond Platform Thinking at Ritchie Brothers - Build Things No One...
summary
Platform enforces “compliance at the point of change” with admission controllers (Gatekeeper/OPA) that verify CI artifacts before cluster admission, running across >32 clusters and thousands of deployments per month; developers can deploy to production in less than an hour while owning scans and approvals. Operators for S3, IAM (service roles) and DynamoDB reconcile resources and attach IAM for workloads, and telemetry is automatic: Open Telemetry → Honeycomb traces let teams debug reconciliations globally. Team managing platform totals nine, serving ~2,000 developers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Partnership and platform intro
- 3:29Platform overview and principles
- 7:02Compliance at change
- 10:53Custom operators for cloud
- 17:19Operator design and scalability
- 18:45Platform observability demo
- 21:18Question and answer session
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