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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Automating application containerization processes using modern cloud buildpacks

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

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Introduction to StackIt and enterprise cloud platforms

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Fostering team collaboration through common infrastructure abstractions

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Abstracting infrastructure complexity with container orchestration platforms

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Utilizing Kubernetes as a foundation for internal platforms

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Introduction to cloud native infrastructure and platform engineering

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Architecting the platform with modern cloud and mobile technologies

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