At Intuit we noticed that application developers spend significant amount of time on configuring infrastructure details like HPA,PDB,container resource, rollbacks, addressing deprecated K8s APIs in addition to developing their apps. To address this problem across our 2500 prod services and alleviate the developers from the k8s cognitive overload, we leveraged kustomize, argo rollouts and analysis template, istio to build our application abstraction layer which is focused on the application rather than the orchestrator, inspired by the Open Application Model[OAM].
Benefits of this includes abstracting K8s manifests into single developer friendly YAML, easier traffic management with Istio service mesh and admiral, canary rollouts & automated rollbacks, AI autoscaling with HPA,VPA recommendations, abstract namespaces for mobility/DR, and debuggability via ephemeral containers
Join us to learn how app abstraction has helped us in paving a path for increasing our developer velocity by 25%