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World Congress 2022 • Jun 15, 2022

The Future of Cloud is Abstraction - Why Kubernetes is not the Endgame for STACKIT

Dominik Kress

Kubernetes isn't the endgame; it's an operational burden keeping developers from writing code. Learn how STACKIT uses abstraction to automatically deploy cloud-native workloads in under five minutes.

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#1 about 5 min

Scaling internal data centers into a self-service public cloud

Growing past internal data center capacities drove the creation of a commercially available self-service public cloud infrastructure.

#2 about 4 min

Understanding the challenges of isolated development and operations teams

Separating development from operations resulted in risky big bang releases and massive operational on-call overhead.

#3 about 5 min

Managing the operational complexity of modern cloud infrastructure configurations

While infrastructure as code empowers autonomous teams, managing complex container orchestration tools introduces significant cognitive load.

#4 about 4 min

Improving developer experience through cloud infrastructure abstraction platforms

Future platform providers must evolve beyond raw technology offerings to deliver self-service abstraction layers optimized for developer productivity.

#5 about 4 min

Demonstrating rapid application deployments with Stackit cloud foundry

Opinionated cloud-native platform environments efficiently provision developer applications by handling routing and containerized resource allocation internally.

#6 about 4 min

Automating application containerization processes using modern cloud buildpacks

Automated buildpacks eliminate manual dockerfile administration by detecting native code dependencies and compiling standardized container images.

Matching moments

3:21 min

Introduction to StackIt and enterprise cloud platforms

Dominik Kress · LIVE

4:42 min

Fostering team collaboration through common infrastructure abstractions

Chad Carlson · World Congress 2021

3:03 min

Abstracting infrastructure complexity with container orchestration platforms

Aarno Aukia · LIVE

1:52 min

Utilizing Kubernetes as a foundation for internal platforms

Adam Bien · World Congress 2021

3:50 min

Introduction to cloud native infrastructure and platform engineering

Christian Strack · LIVE

3:20 min

Architecting the platform with modern cloud and mobile technologies

Tom George · LIVE

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