Keynote: From COBOL to Kubernetes: A 250 Year Old Bank's Cloud-Native Journey
summary
ABN AMRO modernizes a 250‑year bank by building a platform for 400 development teams across 3,000 applications and 20,000 employees, delivering an MVP EKS cluster end of Q1 and importing three workloads. Platform uses AWS EKS/AKS, Helm, Nexus, Vault, Twistlock, Splunk and OPA checks in CI/CD to enforce policies with semantic versioning. Pipelines are modular (build, scan, deploy) so teams swap steps, modules are compliant by default, and policy failures return actionable errors like AWS_02 internet-facing load balancers not permitted.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:47Adopting container strategy
- 5:59Platform goals and design
- 8:57Technical stack and pipelines
- 13:10Compliance as code with OPA
- 15:53Roadmap and lessons learned
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