Unlocking Innovation: How NatWest Bank Uses Cloud Native Tools...
summary
NatWest builds a platform-as-a-product that wires Backstage into a GitOps toolchain (GitLab CI + Flux) and Kubernetes, exposing reusable “promises” as APIs (CRDs) that autogenerate Backstage templates and run workflow pipelines to provision deployments, Postgres instances and buckets. Compound promises orchestrate other promises so a single request triggers multiple pipelines; the team consolidates 135 bloated patterns into configurable options, cutting provisioning from months to minutes and enabling self-service plus inner-sourcing.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Platform engineering at NatWest
- 2:10Enterprise transformation challenges
- 5:00Problem with 135 patterns
- 7:09Modernizing platform patterns
- 9:17Platform as product with Backstage
- 12:28Promise in CeX framework
- 13:12Demo: Self-service deployment
- 16:21Demo: Compound promises
- 18:49Key takeaways and next steps
- 21:39Q&A: Team buy-in
- 24:44Q&A: Developer evangelism
- 26:49Q&A: Cloud account governance
- 28:35Q&A: Scaling applications
- 30:41Q&A: Security in regulated environments
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