Building a Cutting-Edge Kubernetes Internal Developer Platform at NVID...
summary
NVIDIA builds an internal Kubernetes platform using Python CDK to create EKS clusters, ArgoCD ApplicationSets and the GitOps-Bridge for Addons to deploy cluster add‑ons, and Crossplane to manage AWS infra under GitOps. Secrets flow through External Secret Operator with Vault. A three–five person core team onboards 40 apps in one year, using Backstage for cataloging and Argo Workflows for CI/CD; the pipeline is automated end-to-end and successfully reduces onboarding time from weeks to days.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Cano project and IDP basics
- 5:01NVIDIA developer platform challenges
- 8:10Developer experience at speed
- 9:38Argo CD and Crossplane
- 12:23Building the platform
- 13:07Control and workload clusters
- 14:11Argo CD add-ons automation
- 15:54ApplicationSets for add-ons
- 16:58YAML deployment structure
- 19:07Full onboarding automation
- 20:10Live demo
- 25:59Benefits and lessons
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