Automation and the Kubernetes Contributor Experience - Aaron Crickenberger, Samsung SDS

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Automation replaces sprawling Jenkins with a Kubernetes-native stack using prow, gubernator, mungegithub, and testgrid to run CI at scale. Infrastructure runs 4.3 million jobs in a year with about 600,000 tied to PRs, retires the build‑cop role, and moves from 100–150 Jenkins nodes to pods on clusters. PRs merge by batching (over 50% tested as batch testing), labels and OWNERS files drive reviewer/approver selection, and bots handle lifecycle, retest and triage chores.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:28The Work
3. 18:18Code Review - What we tried
4. 20:55Code Review - OWNERS
5. 24:32GitHub Labels

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