Onboarding teams to deploy applications requires a LOT of YAML. To speed up this process, and cut down on writing new YAML, we can provide some simple and easy-to-use Kustomize templates. These when combined with Argo CD create a seamless, self-service experience. Standardizing your deployments with Kustomize and Argo CD across teams, brings predictability, easier maintenance, and faster time to resolution in change management.

In this talk, we’ll share strategies for making application provisioning more self-service by leveraging the best of Argo CD and using ready-made Kustomize templates. Instead of annoying maintainers for change requests, users can self-serve testing and customisation in their own sandboxes. The key is clever usage of App Project RBAC, and marrying that into the Kustomize structure in git to provide a simple Developer Platform experience. The result is expert teams have an easy way to operate, and new teams have an standard way to start with Kubernetes.