World Congress 2026 Europe - Virtual Stage • Jul 1, 2026 • Session details

Convincing Product teams to Adopt Gitops in a Large Org

Vinodsingh Ramalwan

Are centralized cloud bottlenecks slowing your organization down? Discover how MediaMarktSaturn used GitOps and peer-to-peer mentoring to empower thirty product teams with full infrastructure ownership.

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Initiating the cloud migration away from on-premises infrastructure

Initial efforts to migrate product teams from on-premises servers established a centralized launchpad platform.

#2 about 2 min

Understanding the limitations of centralized cloud platform teams

Relying on a single platform team causes operational bottlenecks and reduces disaster recovery preparedness.

#3 about 2 min

Adopting a GitOps model to manage infrastructure state

Implementing tools like Flux prevents configuration drift by reconciling cloud environments directly from Git repositories.

#4 about 3 min

Upskilling product engineering teams on infrastructure as code

Training application developers to write configuration code empowers them to own their software delivery pipelines.

#5 about 3 min

Driving safe pipeline migrations through a cloud buddy program

Pairing product teams with dedicated platform engineers securely transfers infrastructure responsibilities without introducing deployment downtime.

#6 about 2 min

Transitioning engineering careers from product development to platform support

Gaining specialized expertise through technical migration projects creates natural pathways for internal career mobility.

#7 about 2 min

Gaining organizational efficiency through autonomous product engineering teams

Decommissioning legacy applications forces engineering groups to become self-reliant while organically identifying underlying technical debt.

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Exploring the core benefits of adopting GitOps

Davide Imola

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Pivoting product strategy toward platform engineering

Alejandro Albuerne

Alejandro Albuerne · World Congress 2026 Europe

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Core principles and prerequisites of GitOps implementations

Zan Markan

Zan Markan · LIVE

6:39 min

Core principles and prerequisites of robust GitOps workflows

Thomas Schütz · LIVE

3:01 min

Managing cluster platform infrastructure via GitOps principles

Anshul Jindal

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Origins of adopting DevOps and overcoming infrastructure bottlenecks

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