"Working Code Wins": Win Big With a Cloud Native Hackathon Start...
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Wednesday, 2025-04-02· at 14:30· Level 1 | Hall Entrance N11·
summary
Run a companywide cloud native hackathon using only open source tooling and get a reusable platform blueprint: a Backstage Portal front end, OpenTofu-managed infra, Kratics workflows that install a Postgres promise operator, Flux/GitOps with MinIO state, and Instruct VMs for attendees. The platform spins up apps and databases in seconds (organisers create “100 databases” in testing), supports over 250 projects across three concurrent hacks, survives failures via declarative recovery, and successfully powers the event.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Hackathon introduction
- 1:46Speakers' mantras
- 2:50Access Group setup
- 7:48Platform engineering basics
- 16:43Postgres operator with promises
- 23:20Composing services
- 30:27Backstage portal
- 35:23Fleet management & recovery
- 43:34Hackathon lessons
- 48:10Q&A
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