Kubernetes as a scalable foundation for SaaS in the cloud

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Gitpod abandons a Helm self‑hosted model after seeing high installation variance and slow six‑month uptake, and builds a hybrid SaaS: a cloud control plane plus an application plane running in each customer AWS account on EKS with VPC CNI and IRSA. Updates and cluster ops run via Lambdas operating Kubernetes via a DynamoDB‑driven spec, customers deploy a CloudFormation install that registers to the vendor control plane. Result: SaaS‑style continuous updates and SLAs while keeping tenant isolation and compliance in the customer VPC.

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1. 0:00Introduction to talk
2. 1:49What is SaaS
3. 7:09Kubernetes for SaaS control plane
4. 7:54Cloud development environments
5. 15:35Why choose EKS
6. 21:00Gitpod’s EKS choice
7. 22:48Hybrid SaaS model
8. 29:22Q&A and summary

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