Taking Back Control: Building Cloud-Agnostic Container Platforms for Regulated Environments
summary
Saxo Bank builds a cloud‑agnostic Kubernetes platform using Cluster API for vendor portability, GitHub + Flux for GitOps, and custom operators plus an internal Blueprint operator that reconciles YAML-declared dependencies (identity, Kafka, storage). Test environments are recreated weekly; production is rebuilt far less often but uses the same mechanisms. The platform migrates many workloads from public cloud to on‑prem for cost, control, and regulatory exitability, and teams report the Blueprint automation works in practice to reduce lock‑in.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and speakers
- 1:57Cloud computing evolution
- 4:53Forces driving control need
- 7:47Five building blocks for agnosticism
- 13:34Saxo Bank implementation
- 18:13Q&A session part 1
- 25:18Q&A session part 2
- 30:56AI and on-prem strategies
- 33:48Closing remarks
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