Accelerating transformative development in government
summary
Government Technology builds Container Stack, an internal developer platform on AWS that runs on EKS (Fargate/EC2), uses ArgoCD GitOps, Crossplane, Istio, Gatekeeper and IRSA, and relies on KMS and AWS Backup Vault for encryption and restores. The platform codifies policies, automates patching/backup/monitoring and reduces compliance scope so teams focus on apps. A three-person team launches a campaign site in four weeks — a 66% time reduction versus three months — demonstrating the platform works at scale.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:02Cloud evolution and challenges
- 3:52Success factors for scaling
- 8:31EKS architecture and benefits
- 13:26GovTech's Container Stack overview
- 21:48Container Stack philosophy
- 24:05CI/CD and GitOps workflow
- 32:07Use cases and AWS integration
- 34:23Security and compliance approach
- 37:52Case study and benefits
- 41:06Conclusion and next steps
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