Building a 5* Kubernetes Hotel
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· at 11:45· Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room J·
summary
Fidelity builds an internal “Kubernetes Hotel” on Amazon EKS to give 2,500 developers a Cloud Foundry–like platform; the MVP ships as a one-star motel then gains features (CNI: Psyllium, policy: Kyverno, scale-to-zero: Carpenter, GitOps via Argo) to approach a 5-star experience. Security and compliance are non‑negotiable, so resiliency and scaling come first while developer experience and capability lag; plan is multicluster isolation to reduce blast radius and split operational load.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Kubernetes hotel vision
- 2:49Cloud journey challenges
- 4:13From house to hotel model
- 5:38Kubernetes over Cloud Foundry
- 7:20MVP for Kubernetes platform
- 9:06Hype cycle and feedback
- 11:12Platform team’s hype view
- 13:41Operational challenges
- 16:31Cognitive load in infrastructure
- 18:58Five-star progress
- 21:03MVP timing reflections
- 22:26Old to new platform
- 23:51Open questions
- 24:49Q&A
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