Into the Shopfloor: Moving Manufacturing Execution Systems To Kubernetes
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Friday, 2025-04-04· at 11:45· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room E·
summary
Bosch Connected Industry documents migrating Nixie MEES from VM-based Windows deployments through Docker‑Compose and Ansible into Kubernetes, turning ~30 modules into 200+ microservices and cutting release times from hours or days to deployment times down to minutes. The team standardizes with a library Helm chart plus an umbrella release, enforces schema validation, builds infrastructure and IAM operators, uses Argo for automated rollouts, supports single‑node edge and multicloud, and hits real limits (≈1,500 K8s resources and 1MB Helm state secrets) they solve practically.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Manufacturing execution systems
- 1:05What is MES
- 4:01Legacy MES complexity
- 7:55Traditional MES challenges
- 8:39Cloud-native transformation steps
- 11:32Lift and shift lessons
- 13:57Helm charts for standardization
- 17:05Helm charts as first-class citizens
- 20:59Data model separation and validation
- 24:53Custom operators for infrastructure
- 25:55Testing and performance improvements
- 27:47Q&A
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