Michael Reichenbach
Senior Platform Engineer @1KOMMA5°
Munich, Germany
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Michael is a Senior Platform Engineer at 1KOMMA5°, leveraging over ten years of experience building developer-centric platforms. Michael has pioneered Helm-based deployments for Google Cloud Run, introduced service catalogues, and implemented Backstage in multiple organizations. It all started with hosting and developing a popular Minecraft server, which eventually led to migrating hundreds of microservices from on-premise to Azure, introducing Terraform Automation and Collaboration Tools along the way.
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Fixing Resource Labeling: Tying Infrastructure Metadata to Backstage with Terraform
Consistent and accurate resource labeling is essential in cloud environments. However, manual or inconsistent practices often result in labels that are incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate.
Learn how to restructure and label infrastructure using Backstage components as the source of truth for metadata. With an open-source Terraform provider for Backstage, metadata and labels are automatically injected, keeping them consistent and up-to-date with every plan. To ensure reliability, a metadata wrapper module was developed, and the provider’s resiliency enhanced, preventing Backstage outages from disrupting deployments.
This session will provide a clear understanding of how to integrate Terraform with Backstage to enable automated label injection by structuring infrastructure around components. Attendees will also gain actionable insights to bridge the gap between infrastructure management and the Backstage metadata catalog.
Helmless: Fast Serverless Deployments Without the Overhead of Kubernetes and Terraform
Discover how helmless.io, an open-source solution, simplifies serverless deployments with Helm Charts and CI/CD pipelines. It delivers the GitOps-style workflows and velocity of Kubernetes CICD, tailored for serverless environments like AWS Fargate and Google Cloud Run—without the complexity of managing Kubernetes itself.
This poster showcases real-world results, including a tenfold increase in deployment frequency and a 95% reduction in change lead time, powering hundreds of Google Cloud Run containers in production for over a year. Visuals include architecture diagrams, before-and-after comparisons, key metrics, and a roadmap for extending to other cloud providers.
Attendees will learn how to improve serverless workflows, reduce complexity, and adopt a cloud-agnostic GitOps approach, while contributing to the future of this innovative, developer-friendly solution.
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