Keynote: Adventures of Building a Platform as a Service for the Government
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· at 10:03· Level 0 | ICC Auditorium·
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NAV builds and open-sources nice, a Kubernetes-based PaaS used by 100+ product teams and backed by 300 in-house developers, 3,000 public GitHub repos, and 10 custom-built operators. The platform provisions databases, queues and caches automatically, generates SBOMs with 93% coverage, and scales to almost 3,000 deployments per week. nice runs as a fully managed, isolated service used by Statistics Norway and the Directorate of Agriculture with 24/7 ops and a custom developer portal nice as a service.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Norwegian public sector platform journey
- 2:06Offentlig PASS community start
- 3:11NAIS platform for apps
- 4:58NAIS manifest and operators
- 6:22Scaling NAIS to teams
- 8:49NAIS as managed service
- 11:43Platform lessons in public sector
- 12:46Q&A
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