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From ESXi to Kubernetes: Modernizing 1,400 Edge Locations with Open Source

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Talkat SREcon26 Americas · 2026-03-24..03-26· [kubernetes]

speakers

name:Jasjit Singh
linkedin:jasjit-singh-6208418
name:Kanika Nayyar
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/GF6PqeV_l2s
slides:none on file

summary

1,400 retail edge sites migrate from ESXi to Kubernetes without buying new hardware by repurposing an existing node, rolling out a KubeVirt bridge to run legacy VMs, and using a reversible four‑step cutover process with a shutdown ESXi fallback. Deployment is Ansible bootstrap then declarative GitOps using a hub-and-spoke GitOps with FluxCD, Dex, Helm, Grafana, Loki, ClickHouse and VictoriaMetrics. A five‑person SRE core plus deploy specialists scale from one store/night to ~40/week, eliminate virtualization licensing costs, and improve resilience and observability.

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chapters (8)

  1. 0:00Edge modernization journey
  2. 3:29Legacy ESXi environment
  3. 5:16Edge setup constraints
  4. 6:20Kubernetes solution design
  5. 7:43Four-step migration process
  6. 10:18GitOps and observability
  7. 12:06Scaling to 1,400 stores
  8. 13:30Impacts and takeaways

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