At Rabobank, we run Kubernetes across three major platforms: OpenShift, AKS, and EKS. Each platform with its own history and challenges. This session will be about our journey of building a consistent Kubernetes experience for our development teams across these environments.
The talk explores our architectural evolution from Namespace-as-a-Service (NaaS) and ultimately to Cluster-as-a-Service (CaaS), highlighting the challenges and solutions in offering a consistent developer experience.
Attendees will gain insight into our Rabobank’s GitOps-driven infrastructure provisioning model, built with tools like ArgoCD and Terraform and how it enables a secure, scalable, and automated Kubernetes platform. Special attention is given to some security requirements of running Kubernetes in a financial institution, including multi-tenancy, compliance, and internal delegation of infrastructure responsibilities.

Banks aren’t always boring, and our Kubernetes story proves it!