A centralized, one-size-fits-all cloud platform created bottlenecks and lacked transparency, audit trails, and opportunities for team upskilling.
GitOps was chosen as the operational framework to manage infrastructure and application deployments declaratively from a Git repository using tools like Flux.
A mentoring program called "Cloud Buddy" was created to provide dedicated support, blueprints, and guidelines for product teams during the migration.
The migration resulted in empowered teams that manage their own infrastructure, reducing dependency on the central platform team.
Managing infrastructure as code in Git makes everything visible, enabling teams to easily refactor and decommission unused resources via pull requests.
Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.