A 3-year long story about getting an enterprise from "zero to hero" from manually deploying monoliths, to CI/CD, microservices, Gitops and building an IDP in 2020, before DevEx was cool.

This talk is a behind-the-scenes of an adventurous journey within a medium-sized enterprise, navigating through challenges and obstacles of going Cloud Native with a blend of diplomacy, acknowledging the complexity of convincing management, developers and stakeholders while leveraging various open-source tools to get from on-premise all-manual development to cloud automation and beyond.

Lifting a monolith, re-architecting apps to microservices, deploying to K8s, implementing helm, then all the way to integrating different pipelines with ArgoCD, FluxCD and JenkinsX without forgetting observability.

- KCD Austria 2024